Union Minister talks about Chandrayan-3:
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is now halfway to the Moon. The “moon craft” will enter the Moon’s orbit on Saturday at about 7 o’clock in the evening.
While the nation waits impatiently to see if the spacecraft succeeds in its mission, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced that the lunar landing will take place “after a week or so.”
Chandrayaan-3 is expected to enter lunar orbit on August 5 at around 7 p.m. IST, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
From the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, the Chandrayaan-3 was launched on July 14. ISRO has been launching the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into ever-distant orbits over the course of five maneuvers in the three weeks since.
The craft was successfully launched toward the Moon from Earth’s orbit on August 1 through a crucial maneuver known as a slingshot. Hours after finishing its loops around the Earth and getting closer to the Moon on August 1, ISRO reported that the health of India’s third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, is normal.
After its trans-lunar injection, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft left its orbit around the Earth and started traveling into the moon’s vicinity.
According to the national space agency, which has its Bengaluru headquarters, the Lunar Orbit Injection (LOI) is scheduled at roughly 7 p.m. on August 5.
Chandrayaan-3 will conduct the maneuver when its orbit is closest to the Moon, according to ISRO. An effort will be made on August 23 to make a soft landing on the surface of the moon, according to earlier statements from the space agency.
In the meantime, ISRO has scheduled a number of events over the coming months as it prepares for “exciting” missions, including a GSLV launch this year, according to Chairman S Somanath.
In early September or in the month of August, Somanath stated, “We are going to return with another PSLV mission.”
The Gaganyaan project, according to ISRO, calls for the launch of a crew of three people into a 400-kilometer orbit for a three-day mission and their safe return to ground through a landing in Indian sea waters as a demonstration of human spaceflight capability.
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