On a shoestring budget, Chandrayaan-3 aims to observe Luna, Earth, even exoplanets
India's Space Research Organisation will next week launch Chandrayaan-3, a mission that aims to land on the moon and deploy a rover.
ISRO yesterday announced that Chandrayaan-3 had been tucked into its capsule and mated with the launcher that will take it into space. Liftoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre has been scheduled for July 14 at 2:35pm IST . The ridiculously economical $74.5 million mission aims to land near Luna's south pole in August. From a ramped compartment, the lander will deploy a 26 kilogram rover outfitted with instruments including an Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope .
The lander contains an accelerometer, Ka-band and laser altimeters, Doppler velocimeter, star sensors, inclinometer, touchdown sensor, and cameras for hazard avoidance and positional knowledge. The lander also boasts several instruments including Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment to measure surface thermal properties, Lunar Seismic Activity to measure tremors around the landing site, Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive ionosphere and Atmosphere to study the gas and plasma environment, and a NASA-provided passive Laser Retroreflector Array for lunar ranging studies.
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