Chandrayaan-3 last step of reducing lander's orbit completed successfully
The last and final step of India’s lunar mission was completed as the indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully reduced the Lander Module’s orbit, announcing that it is expected to land on the moon’s surdata-face at 6:04 pm on august 23. The second and last deboosting operation of the lander was also completed early on Sunday. Meanwhile, Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years, Luna-25 failed as the station collided with the moon’s surdata-face after entering an unpredictable orbit. This leaves India’s Chandrayaan-3 to be the only one in the race to the moon.
“Last time after the landing process, we had gone through the data. Based on that, corrective measures have been taken. Not only that, we did something more than what we corrected. Wherever the margins are less, we enhanced those margins…Based on the lessons we learnt from Chandrayaan 2, the system is going with more ruggedness,” said former director of ISRO, K Sivan on Chandryaan-3 mission.
Annapurni Subramaniam, the director of indian Institute of Astrophysics, reacted to the news of crash of Russia’s moon mission Luna-25 and said “hope they still continue to have the knowledge, capacity and experience and are able to solve it and go ahead with their Luna-26 and Luna-27 missions as planned”.“A very big credential regarding space exploration 50 years ago and they attempted this after about 50 years. We hope that they still continue to have the knowledge, capacity and experience and that they will be able to solve it and go ahead with their Luna-26 and Luna-27 missions as planned,” Annapurni Subramaniam said.