Chandrayaan-3 is preparing for its soft landing on the Moon surface on Wednesday.
“‘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,” ISRO wrote on X.
The countdown for the
highly anticipated landing on the Moon's south pole has already started.
Chandrayaan-3 has successfully completed all five orbit manoeuver steps and two
deboosting manoeuvers, bringing it much closer to the lunar surface. The next
task is the landing itself, scheduled for Wednesday (August 23). ISRO will
broadcast the live telecast of the landing starting from Monday at 5.20 pm.
What will happen after
landing?
The Lander Module,
which includes the lander Vikram and the rover Pragyan, was separated from the
Propulsion Module within the spacecraft on Thursday. The Propulsion Module
which will remain in Moon's orbit for months or years, has an attached payload
known as the Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE), to study
Earth's spectral and polarimetric measurements from the moon's orbit. In
simpler terms, SHAPE will Analyse certain signatures of Earth's light.
Once the Lander Module
reaches the Moon's surface, the lander Vikram will deploy its payloads. These
include Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) for measuring temperature
and thermal conductivity. Another payload, the Instrument for Lunar Seismic
Activity (ILSA), will measure seismic activity around the landing site. The
Langmuir Probe (LP) will estimate plasma density and changes. A passive Laser
Retroreflector Array from NASA will be used for lunar laser studies.
The rover Pragyan on
the other hand, carries an Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and a Laser
Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) to determine the elements in the landing
site's vicinity.
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