Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched its Chandrayaan-3 today at 2.35pm (IST) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. With a successful lift-off of LVM3-M4 rocket soared in the clear skies making every Indian happy to witness the history in the making.
The LVM3-M4 rocket is equipped with S200 step on boosters. Weighing 642tons the launch vehicle that is 43.5 meters tall is fourth mission— one operational after an experimental and two developmental missions. Thousands of people were gathered at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota to witness this historic feat when a Launch Vehicle Mark III (LVM3-M4) rocket carried Chandrayaan-3.
Chandrayaan-3 is a sequential mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the moon. It consists of an indigenous lander module, a propulsion module, and a rover. The lander and the rover will have scientific payloads to carry out several experiments on the lunar surface.
ISRO chief S. Somanath said that Chandrayaan 3 has successfully separated from the powerful LVM3-M4 rocket. He made this statement as space scientists celebrated the successful launch of the mission at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
Chandrayaan 3 will be landing in the lunar south pole. It will be 4th Country to conduct a soft landing on the Moon after US, Russia and China. The south pole of the moon remains largely unexplored. Chandrayaan has three main objectives. First to land safely on the lunar surface, second to conduct rover operations and lastly it will conduct scientific experiments on the moon. Chandrayaan 3 will deliver a lander and a rover to the lunar surface. The rover will explore, take samples, collect information for 14 earth days.
