We have touchdown...AGAIN! 🌘
Yesterday the Vikram Lander fired up its thrusters once again to perform a little hop on the Lunar surface, becoming only the 2nd spacecraft to ever do so! 🥈
It lifted off, got to an altitude of only 40 cm and then landed again 30-40 cm away.
To safely perform this hop, the ChaSTE and ILSA instruments as well as the ramps had to be retracted and have been successfully redeployed after landing.
The reason for this hop was to test out aspects of future sample return missions and crewed missions to the Moon by ISRO!!
#Chandrayaan3 #ISRO
Chandrayaan-3 Mission update:
Smile, please📸!
Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning.
The 'image of the mission' was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam).
NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 Mission are developed by the Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS)
https://t.co/S5QGFm7UQz
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.
Congratulations, India🇮🇳!
#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3
#ISRO has reported everything about the #Chandrayaan3 mission is proceeding precisely as planned! 🎯
Here are another set of pictures taken by the Lander Imager Camera-4 on 20 Aug (left) and the Lander Position Detection Camera on 19 Aug (right):
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
The mission is on schedule.
Systems are undergoing regular checks.
Smooth sailing is continuing.
The Mission Operations Complex (MOX) is buzzed with energy & excitement!
The live telecast of the landing operations at MOX/ISTRAC begins at 17:20 Hrs. IST on August 23, 2023.
Here are the images of the moon captured by the Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC) from an altitude of about 70 km, on August 19, 2023.
LPDC images assist the Lander Module in determining its position (latitude and longitude) by matching them against an onboard moon reference map.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
‘Welcome, buddy!’
Ch-2 orbiter formally welcomed Ch-3 LM.
Two-way communication between the two is established.
MOX has now more routes to reach the LM.
Update: Live telecast of Landing event begins at 17:20 Hrs. IST.
#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Meanwhile, the Propulsion Module continues its journey in the current orbit for months/years.
The SHAPE payload onboard it would
☑️ perform spectroscopic study of the Earth’s atmosphere and
☑️ measure the variations in polarization from the clouds on Earth
– to accumulate signatures of Exoplanets that would qualify for our habitability!
This payload is SHAPEd by U R Rao Satellite Centre/ISRO, Bengaluru. https://t.co/82g9UBsAMh
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
🌎 viewed by
Lander Imager (LI) Camera
on the day of the launch
&
🌖 imaged by
Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera (LHVC)
a day after the Lunar Orbit Insertion
LI & LHV cameras are developed by SAC & LEOS, respectively https://t.co/esuVYhZuxm
https://t.co/PESoOql5ZK