Chandrayaan-3
Also known as Chandrayaan3, Chandrayaan 3
Chandrayaan-3 ( ) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019.
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Chandrayaan-3 is India's third lunar exploration mission, featuring a lander called Vikram and a rover called Pragyan designed to replace the ones that crashed during the previous Chandrayaan-2 mission in 2019. The mission matters because it represents another attempt by India's space agency (ISRO) to successfully land and operate equipment on the Moon, advancing India's capabilities in lunar exploration.
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- Chandrayaan-3
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- Chandrayaan-3 – Image of Vikram lander on lunar surface taken by Pragyan rover navcam at 1104 IST, 30 August 2023 from 15 meters away (with text).webp
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- Image of Vikram lander on lunar surface taken by Pragyan rover navcam at 1104 IST, 30 August 2023 from 15 meters away
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- ISRO
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- 2023-098A
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- 66666
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- (PM) Propulsion module: ≤ 3 to 6 months (planned) (in service) Vikram lander: ≤ 14 days (planned) (since landing) Pragyan rover: ≤ 14 days (planned) 12 days (final) (since deployment)
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- I-3K (modified) Propulsion Module; Vikram (lander)
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- ISRO
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35 sectionsContents
- History
- Objectives
- Spacecraft
- Design
- Propulsion module
- ''Vikram'' lander
- Rover pragyan
- Payloads
- On lander
- On rover
- On the propulsion module
- Mission profile
- Launch
- Orbit
- Landing
- Surface operations
- Propulsion module reinserted to orbit around Earth
- Propulsion module additional lunar flyby phase
- Mission life
- Team
- Funding
- Results
- Temperature variation
- Detection of sulfur
- Plasma measurement
- Seismic measurements
- In-situ temperature measurements
- Reactions
- Domestic reactions
- International reactions
- Awards
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Chandrayaan-3 ( ) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019.
The spacecraft was launched on July 14, 2023, at 14:35 IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, India. It entered lunar orbit on 5 August, and touched down near the lunar south pole, at 69°S, on 23 August 2023 at 18:04 IST (12:33 UTC). With this landing, ISRO became the fourth national space agency to successfully land on the Moon, after the Soviet space program, NASA and CNSA, and the first organization in the recorded human history to achieve a soft landing near the lunar south pole.
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