If Chandrayaan-3 succeeds, India will be the first to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.
Chandrayaan-3 is due for lift-off on Friday afternoon from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an island off India's south-eastern coastIndia is set to launch its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.
Chandrayaan-2 - which also comprised an orbiter, a lander and a rover - was launched in July 2019 but it was only partially successful. Its orbiter continues to circle and study the Moon even today, but the lander-rover failed to make a soft landing and crashed during touchdown. It was because of "a last-minute glitch in the braking system", explained Mr Annadurai.
The lander weighs about 1,500kg and carries within its belly the 26kg rover which is named Pragyaan, the Sanskrit word for wisdom. "The rover is carrying five instruments which will focus on finding out about the physical characteristics of the surface of the Moon, the atmosphere close to the surface and the tectonic activity to study what goes on below the surface. I'm hoping we'll find something new," Mr Somanath told Mirror Now.
The landing, Mr Annadurai said, would have to be "absolutely precise" to coincide with the start of a lunar day because the batteries of the lander and the rover would need sunlight to be able to charge and function. The Moon mission, Mr Annadurai says, was thought up in the early 2000s as an exciting project to attract talent at a time of the IT boom in India, as most technology graduates wanted to join the software industry.
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