Episode 2264
Chandrayaan-3
Sat, 2023-Jul-15 01:51 UTC
Length - 1:45
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With 592,058 views on Friday, 14 July 2023 our article of the day is Chandrayaan-3.
Chandrayaan-3 is the third lunar exploration mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It consists of a lander and the Pragyan rover similar to Chandrayaan-2, but does not have an orbiter. Its propulsion module behaves like a communication relay satellite. The propulsion module carries the lander and rover configuration until the spacecraft is in a 100 km lunar orbit. Following Chandrayaan-2, where a last-minute glitch in the landing guidance software led to the lander crashing after entering lunar orbit, another lunar mission was proposed. The launch of Chandrayaan-3 took place at 14 July 2023, at 2:35 pm IST and injection of 100 km circular polar orbit was completed successfully as part of phase one. The lander and rover is expected to land near the lunar south pole region on 23 August 2023.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:51 UTC on Saturday, 15 July 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Chandrayaan-3 on Wikipedia.
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