Chandrayan-3: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has confirmed that it will send Chandrayan-3 in July this year. This was disclosed by the premier space organization’s chief in the India Today Conclave – South.
S Somnath, ISRO chief said, “Essentially Chandrayaan-3 is similar to Chandrayaan-2, with the same scientific architecture and mission objective,” while talking about ISRO’s future plans.
Chandrayan is India’s mission to the moon, and it comprises 3 stages.
Chandrayan-1 happened in 2008 when India sent a lunar mission to study the surface of the moon. This mission was completed in August 2009. In this mission, the satellite observed the lunar surface from a distance of 100 km.
The Chandrayan-2 mission was more complex and involved an orbiter, a lander and a rover. The objective of this mission, launched in 2019, was to study the lunar surface more closely.
Most preparations completed
ISRO says most of its Chandrayan-3 preparations are completed. This mission would have a lander and a rover but no orbiter.
The purpose of Chandrayan-3 is to explore the mostly-dark part of the moon which doesn’t get any sunlight.
Chabdrayan-3 doesn’t need an orbiter because there is already one in the moon’s orbit. This was left by the previous Chandrayan-2 project which failed.
However, ISRO has learnt from that failure. “We had a failure of the mission but the orbiter is there doing measurements and giving us data. We took pains to understand what went wrong and understand what the problem was. It was an error in the software,” told the ISRO chief while explaining Chadrayan-3.
Studying the Sun as well
ISRO also plans to study the solar surface with its Aditya L-1 mission. The satellite which will study the sun will be placed at 4 times the distance between the Earth and the moon.
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