ISRO Chandrayaan-3 mission FAQs: Launch date, place, timings, live streaming, other details
ISRO Chandrayaan-3 mission FAQs: Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar exploration mission, will make India the fourth country to land its spacecraft on the surface of the moon and demonstrate the country’s abilities for safe and soft landing on lunar surface.
Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar exploration mission is all set to launch on Friday, 14 July 2023 at 2:35 pm IST.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft to take-off on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The spacecraft will be launched on a GSLV Mark 3 (LVM 3) heavy-lift launch vehicle.
For watching the launch of ISRO Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, you need to register yourself with ID and password on ivg.shar.gov.in.
After registering yourself, you can watch the event live from the Launch View Gallery at Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
You can also watch the launching on official YouTube channel of ISRO and on Doordarshan.
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The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is built on a budget of around Rs 615 crore or $75 million.
The ‘Launch Rehearsal’ simulating the entire launch preparation and process has been concluded by the ISRO.
A day ahead of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, a team of ISRO scientists on Thursday visited and offered prayers at Tirupathi Venkatachalapathy Temple in Andhra Pradesh with a miniature model of Chandrayaan-3.
If all goes well, Chandrayaan-3 will be the first spacecraft to land on Moon's South Pole, demonstrating India’s technical prowess and bold spacefaring ambitions.
Chandrayaan-3’s development phase commenced in January 2020 with plans to launch it somewhere in 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused delays in the development process.
The major discovery of the Chandrayaan-1 mission, launched in 2008, is the detection of water (H2O) and hydroxyl (OH) on the lunar surface. Data also revealed their enhanced abundance towards the polar region.
The primary science objective of the mission was to prepare a three-dimensional atlas of both the near and far sides of the Moon and to conduct chemical and mineralogical mapping of the entire lunar surface with high spatial resolution, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre under ISRO had said.
Chandrayaan-3 mission will demonstrate a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface, rover roving on the moon and conducting in-situ scientific experiments.
ISRO invited citizens to witness the launch of the much-awaited Chandrayaan-3 from the viewing gallery at Sriharikota.
Upon landing, it will operate for one lunar day, which is approximately 14 Earth days. One day on Moon is equal to 14 days on Earth. K Sivan, former director of ISRO, said that the success of mission Chandrayan-3 will give a morale boost to programs like Gaganyan.
Meanwhile, Mylswamy Annadurai, Mission Director of Chandrayaan-1, said Chandrayaan-3 is a very important mission.
Moon serves as a repository of earth’s past and a successful lunar mission by India will help in enhancing life on Earth and prepare to explore the rest of the solar system — and beyond.
- With inputs from agencies
