The Mark 3 heavy-lift launch vehicle, also known as the Bahubali rocket, is holding the moon lander Vikram in place.
Sriharikota: Carrying the dreams of the entire country, India's Chandrayaan-3 launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. If the mission is successful, India will join China, the United States, and Russia as the fourth nation to successfully conduct a controlled lunar landing.
Vikram, a moon lander, is mounted atop the Bahubali rocket, a Mark 3 heavy-lift launch vehicle.
It will take the spacecraft, which is scheduled to settle on the moon on August 23, nearly a month to travel from Earth to the moon. It will run after landing for a lunar day, which is equal to 14 days on Earth. 14 days on Earth equal one day on the Moon.
There will be three main parts to Chandrayaan-3: a lander, a rover, and a propulsion system. The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, which is still in the lunar atmosphere, will be used.
India's mooncraft "Vikram," which will arrive there for the first time, will be the first to do so. Water molecules have been discovered there. The discovery, revealed in 2008 during India's maiden lunar expedition, shocked the entire globe.
A soft landing is intended for Vikram. Following that, the lander will release the rover Pragyan, which will conduct research while exploring the moon's surface for a lunar day, or 14 days on Earth.
Four years after a previous effort that ended in failure when the ground crew lost communication just before landing, the Chandrayaan mission makes a second try.
Chandrayaan-2, the ISRO's second lunar mission, was unable to land in 2019. But in order to prevent such failures, ISRO has made a number of adjustments to the impending mission.
"The main flaw with the most recent Chandrayaan-2 mission was the initiation of off-nominal situations in the system. There were no nominal things. In an exclusive interview with NDTV, ISRO Chief S. Somnath acknowledged that the spacecraft couldn't safely land due to unforeseen circumstances
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