The Indian Space Research Organization ie ISRO launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission on Friday afternoon at 2:35 pm. Chandrayaan was sent into space through an LVM3-M4 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Chandrayaan successfully reached the Earth’s orbit after 16 minutes. ISRO Chief S Somnath said after the launch that the spacecraft has started its journey towards the Moon. If everything goes according to plan, it will land on the moon on August 23 at 5:47 pm.
Chandrayaan-3 has Lander, Rover and Propulsion Module. The lander and rover will land on the Moon’s South Pole and conduct experiments there for 14 days. The propulsion module will study the radiation coming from the Earth by staying in the Moon’s orbit. Through the mission, ISRO will find out how earthquakes occur on the lunar surface. It will study the soil of the Moon.
India will become the fourth country to do so
If there is success in soft landing i.e. the mission is successful, then after America, Russia and China, India will become the fourth country to do so. There were many spacecraft crashes before both America and Russia successfully landed on the moon. China is the only country to be successful in its first attempt with the Chang’e-3 mission in 2013.