ISRO successfully launches Chandrayaan-3, India's third moon expedition

Category : Science and Tech Published on: July 17 2023

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The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission has launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 2.30 PM IST on Thursday, July 14.
ISRO launched Chandrayaan-3 on-board the heavy-lift LVM3-M4 rocket, the largest and heaviest in its class and dubbed 'Fat Boy', from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
Chandrayaan-3 is equipped with a lander, a rover and a propulsion module. Its weight is about 3,900 kilograms.
Having flown 3.84 lakh km, the LVM 3 is scheduled for a lunar touchdown on August 23-24.
If Isro pulls this mission off successfully, India will join an exclusive list of just three other countries that have managed a soft landing on the Moon—the United States, the erstwhile Soviet Union and most recently, China
Both the United States and the Soviet Union crashed many spacecraft before they successfully landed on the Moon. China was the only country to succeed in its first attempt with the Chang’e-3 mission in 2013.
The Chandrayaan programme was first announced on August 15, 2003 by the then Prime Minister, the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The first mission Chandrayaan-1 was launched on October 22, 2008.
The termination of the first mission was announced by ISRO on 28 August 2009.
The second mission Chandrayaan-2, was launched on July 22, 2019.