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Chandrayaan-3 Successfully Completes An Orbit Reduction Manoeuvre; Now Closer To The Moon

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On Sunday, a day after placing Chandrayaan-3 into the lunar orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that the orbit-lowering maneuver of the mission had been completed successfully.

The next such operation will take place on August 9, according to the space agency.

The anticipated orbit-lowering maneuver by the spacecraft was completed successfully. It was now 170 km x 4,313 km from the moon’s surface after the engines were retrofire.

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According to a tweet from ISRO on Sunday, “the next operation to further reduce the orbit is scheduled for August 9, 2023, between 1300 and 1400 hrs IST.”

Until August 17, there will be three more moon-bound maneuvers before the landing module, which includes the lander and rover, separates from the propulsion module.

After that, the lander will undergo de-orbiting procedures before making the final descent to the moon. On August 23, ISRO said it would try to gently land on the moon’s surface.

Since its launch on July 14, ISRO has moved the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft more than five times, placing it in orbits that are getting farther and farther from the planet.

In order to demonstrate end-to-end capability for safe landing and wandering on the lunar surface, Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-up mission to Chandrayaan-2.

It consists of a lander module, a rover module, and an indigenous propulsion module to test and showcase new technologies needed for interplanetary missions.

The propulsion module will carry the lander and rover configuration up to 100 km into lunar orbit. In order to examine the spectral and polarimetric data of the earth from the lunar orbit, the propulsion module contains a Spectro-Polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload.

The lander has the capacity to do a soft landing at a chosen location on the moon and deploy the rover, which will conduct an in-situ chemical analysis of the moon’s surface while it is moving.

Both the lander and the rover are equipped with scientific packages that will conduct lunar surface research.

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