Chandrayaan -3

Chandrayaan – 3

Chandrayaan – 3 is the third Moon Mission by India’s space agency ISRO. The goal of Chandrayaan – 3 is to place a Lander and Rover on the Lunar surface and operate them for roughly on lunar day or 14 Earth day. It consist of a Lander module (LM) named Vikram , a Propulsion module (PM) and Rover named Pragyan similar to Chandrayaan - 2 but does not have an orbiter. It was launched by the LVM3-M4 on July 14 at 2.35 pm. The integrated module was placed in an elliptical packing orbit (EPO) of size – 170 * 36500 km.

Launch – 14 July 2023, 2:35Pm

Rocket – LVM3 – M4

Height – 43.5 m

Place – Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Payload – 3900 kg

Lift Off Mass – 642 T

Mission Type :

It consist of

1.       Indigenous Lander Module (LM):

Mission life – 1 Lunar day (14 Earth Day),

Mass – 1.752 kg,

Power- 738 W,

Payloads – 4 .

2.       Rover :

Mission life – 1 Lunar day ,

Mass – 26 Kg,

 Power – 50 W,

Payloads – 2 .

3.       Propulsion Module (PM) :

Mission Life – PM will carry the Lander and the Rover from the injection orbit to a circular lunar orbit. Its payload will be operational for 3 to 6 months.

 Mass – 2.148 kg ,

 Power – 738 W,

 Payload – 1.

Distance between Earth and Moon is 3,84,400 Km.

Landing date on Moon – 23/24 August 2023.

Landing site – It is likely to land near the Moon's South Pole and operate for one lunar day (14 Earht day).

Mission Objectives:

•         To demonstrate safe and soft landing on Lunar Surface.
•         To demonstrate Rover roving on the Moon.
•      To conduct in-site scientific experiments on the materials available on the lunar surface to the better understand about composition of the Moon.