On Tuesday, Chandrayaan-3, which is entering its last phase before departing Earth and moving towards the Moon, is scheduled to carry out its fifth and last Earth-bound orbit-raising maneuver.
Following this vital maneuver, the spacecraft will position itself for lunar insertion, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Chandrayaan-3, which was launched on July 14, has been progressively raising its orbit above the Earth in order to get ready for its last thrust toward the moon. The Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3) successfully launched the spacecraft into an elliptic parking orbit measuring 36,500 km x 170 km.
The spacecraft will switch to an Earth-to-Moon course during the fifth orbit-raising maneuver, which is slated to take place today between 2 and 3 IST.
On August 23, a lander called Vikram and a rover called Pragyan are anticipated to touch down close to the south polar zone. This project comes after Chandrayaan-2, whose lander crashed after entering lunar orbit due to a last-minute malfunction.
Chandrayaan-3 would have completed five to six rounds of the Moon by the first week of August and would have entered the innermost circle. The process of finding the precise location of the landing on the Moon will then take an additional ten days.
Future interplanetary missions by ISRO will advance significantly as a result of the Chandrayaan-3 mission. India’s quest to discover the mysteries of the Moon makes an amazing advancement as the world waits in anticipation.
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