In the year 2019, India launched its mission Chandrayaan-2, it went right till the last turn but there was a problem in soft landing. Chandrayaan-2 had crashed, but it had done its job. Chandrayaan-2's orbiter has been revolving around the moon for the last 4 years and is doing its work. Now after four years, when the Vikram lander has again reached the moon, the orbiter of Chandrayaan-2 has been activated.Important things related to soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 mission:# ISRO has fixed the time for the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on August 23 i.e. Wednesday evening at 6.4 minutes. If everything goes right, then at this time Vikram Lander will land on the surface of the moon and Pragyan Rover will come out.# As soon as the sun rises on the moon, the work of Vikram Lander will start and only then soft landing will happen, after that Pragyan Rover will do its work for 14 days according to the Earth and will do research on the moon.# Pragyan Rover will be around Vikram Lander during this time, from there the activity of both will be captured in the camera. Vikram will keep an eye on the lander Pragyan, while the Pragyan rover will do research on the lunar surface.Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 21, 2023
‘Welcome, buddy!’
Ch-2 orbiter formally welcomed Ch-3 LM.
Two-way communication between the two is established.
MOX has now more routes to reach the LM.
Update: Live telecast of Landing event begins at 17:20 Hrs. IST.#Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3