Bengaluru: After the successfully second deboosting operation in the wee hours, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday announced that its third-moon mission Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the moon on August 23 around 6.04 pm.
The spacecraft is now just three-day away from its final destination, the moon’s south pole
ISRO chairman S Somanath said that the lander, Vikram, will be able to make a soft landing on the Moon’s surface on August 23 even if all the sensors and two of its engines do not work. This is India’s third lunar mission to further explore the uncharted south pole of the lunar surface. The landing will streamed live from 5.27 pm on August 23 at:
• ISRO Website https://isro.gov.in
• YouTube https://youtube.com/watch?v=DLA_64yz8Ss
• Facebook https://facebook.com/ISRO
• DD National TV
This came amid reports that Luna 25, Russian spacecraft, spun out of control and smashed into the moon before the planned lunar soft landing scheduled for August 21. “The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,” Roskosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, said in a statement, as quoted in the Reuters’ report.
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