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BENGALURU: Chandrayaan 3 entered lunar orbit on Saturday night, carrying out the essential step of entering into the Moon’s gravity subject.
The thruster firing manoeuvre was carried out from the Bengaluru-based ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) round 7 pm.
“Chandrayaan 3 has been successfully inserted into lunar orbit. A retro-burning at the Perilune (point in lunar orbit closest to the Moon) was commanded from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX), ISTRAC, Bengaluru,” ISRO tweeted.
“The next Lunar-bound orbit maneuver is scheduled tomorrow (August 6), around 23:00 hrs IST,” the official Twitter deal with for Chandrayaan 3 (chandrayaan_3) tweeted on Saturday.
Just a little earlier, ISRO shared a message obtained from the propulsion module, indicating that it had entered the lunar orbit: “MOX, ISTRAC, this is Chandrayaan 3. I am feeling lunar gravity.”
On sixth orbit, module to launch lander
Following the lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre on Sunday evening, the propulsion module will likely be subjected to a sequence of orbit reductions until it settles into an orbit at an altitude of 100km from the lunar floor. On the sixth orbit, the propulsion module will launch the lander, which carries the rover, to aim a tender touchdown close to the Moon’s south pole on August 23.
Once achieved, India would be the first nation to have soft-landed close to the south pole. While the rover and lander modules will conduct on-site experiments for 14 days, the propulsion module will use its payload, Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE), to check the spectro-polarimetric signatures of Earth within the near-infrared wavelength vary whereas in its orbit-reduction mode earlier than the August 23 touchdown. Its mission ends as soon as it releases the lander and the rover.
BENGALURU: Chandrayaan 3 entered lunar orbit on Saturday night, carrying out the essential step of entering into the Moon’s gravity subject.
The thruster firing manoeuvre was carried out from the Bengaluru-based ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) round 7 pm.
“Chandrayaan 3 has been successfully inserted into lunar orbit. A retro-burning at the Perilune (point in lunar orbit closest to the Moon) was commanded from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX), ISTRAC, Bengaluru,” ISRO tweeted.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“The next Lunar-bound orbit maneuver is scheduled tomorrow (August 6), around 23:00 hrs IST,” the official Twitter deal with for Chandrayaan 3 (chandrayaan_3) tweeted on Saturday.
Just a little earlier, ISRO shared a message obtained from the propulsion module, indicating that it had entered the lunar orbit: “MOX, ISTRAC, this is Chandrayaan 3. I am feeling lunar gravity.”
On sixth orbit, module to launch lander
Following the lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre on Sunday evening, the propulsion module will likely be subjected to a sequence of orbit reductions until it settles into an orbit at an altitude of 100km from the lunar floor. On the sixth orbit, the propulsion module will launch the lander, which carries the rover, to aim a tender touchdown close to the Moon’s south pole on August 23.
Once achieved, India would be the first nation to have soft-landed close to the south pole. While the rover and lander modules will conduct on-site experiments for 14 days, the propulsion module will use its payload, Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE), to check the spectro-polarimetric signatures of Earth within the near-infrared wavelength vary whereas in its orbit-reduction mode earlier than the August 23 touchdown. Its mission ends as soon as it releases the lander and the rover.
