On Friday, July 14, at 2.35 PM IST, the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully blasted out from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
The spacecraft successfully launched from Earth and is currently traveling towards the Moon in an orbit around the planet.
According to P Veeramuthuvel, project director of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, it has a number of crucial events planned, including earth-bound maneuvers, insertion into the lunar orbit, separation of the lander, a sequence of deboost maneuvers, and a power descent phase for a soft landing.
The project, modeled after Chandrayaan-2, aims to demonstrate several capabilities, including reaching lunar orbit, performing a soft landing on the moon’s surface with a lander, and sending a rover out of the lander to explore the moon’s surface.
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The propulsion module successfully detached from the rocket sixteen minutes after takeoff and began an elliptical orbit of the earth, traveling 170 kilometers (km) in front of it and 36,500 kilometers (km) behind it on its way to the lunar orbit.
Union Ministers expressed gratitude to PM Modi on the launch.
“We should be grateful to PM Modi for initially opening the gates of Sriharikota…We have a lot of human potential, but thanks to the government, we were also able to pool our resources, Dr. Jitendra Singh added.
