News Chandrayaan-3

[MaxBuzz]

India plans to launch the Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander in August this year, said Minister of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh

 

[Sbb1413]

I have already talked about this at the Chandrayaan-2 thread. The gist is that Chandrayaan-3 is a repeat of the landing part of Chandrayaan-2 and a demonstration of India's space capability. I'm very excited about this.

 

[MarkWatney2015]

So that means retroactively there's a Chandrayaan-3 addon is nearing completion faster than Chandrayaan-2? Cool

 

[Sbb1413]

Nothing to do with Chandrayaan, but I've just heard that the Chandra X-ray Observatory is one of the few non-Indian spacecraft with Indian name (it is named after S Chandrasekhar). Cygnus NG-14 Kalpana Chawla is another one (Kalpana Chawla was born in India in 1962 and she flew on Shuttle missions as an American citizen).

 

[MaxBuzz]

lunar rover launch

 

[francisdrake]

It comes to my mind, how close the online display of ISRO resembles a typical Orbiter MFD.
They are giving more information than most other launch displays, like the Azimuth direction.
Hope all goes well and Chandrayaan-3 reaches its proper trajectory.

 

[Piorun]

Chandrayaan-3 has recently successfully performed the LOI manoeuvre:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688215948531015681

If everything goes okay, the anticipated landing should occur around August 23rd-24th.

 

[MaxBuzz]

first photo of the moon

 

[MaxBuzz]

Chandrayaan-3 established contact with Chandrayaan-2

 

[Boxx]

It comes to my mind, how close the online display of ISRO resembles a typical Orbiter MFD.
They are giving more information than most other launch displays, like the Azimuth direction.
Hope all goes well and Chandrayaan-3 reaches its proper trajectory.

Not sure I understand the plot... does it mean that the orbit will still be "highly" elliptical? (150 perilune to 550+ km apolune....)... or does it read from right to left in remaining time?

 

[Artlav]

30 minutes till landing.

 

[llarian]

Congratulations to ISRO. See, you doubters who said it is impossible to land at the poles.

 

[jedidia]

See, you doubters who said it is impossible to land at the poles.

Wasn't that mostly just an orbiter joke, because there's a bug that leads to weird behaviour in the sim? Or maybe your post is just a reference to that joke. Difficult to tell without any emojis...

 

[Piorun]

ISRO has managed to establish communication with the lunar lander:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694360664675127726

We already have the first photo from the landing site!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694376945340080398

 

[francisdrake]

Not sure I understand the plot.

This was a plot during launch. The upper line is the speed, with the white figures in km/s. The kinks in the curve are the stage separation events, when acceleration shortly dropped, before the next stage engine started.

The lower line is the altitude with red figures in km. The third stage shows a significant drop from 220 to 130 km, before climbing again. This is quite typical for high-ISP but low thrust optimized upper stage engines.

 

[MaxBuzz]

first photo after landing on the moon

 

[Sbb1413]

India becomes the fourth country to land on the moon after USSR (now Russia), US, and China. I'm proud of my country.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694713817916473530

 

[Piorun]

We can see the rover moving on the ground - sincere congrats to the People of India!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694945669721776263

https://twitter.com/x/status/1695378531243454712

 

[MaxBuzz]

The Indian apparatus transmitted the first data from the moon, the soil of which turned out to be hot (it was assumed that the temperature of the lunar soil around the pole was 20°, but it turned out to be 70°)

this fact will affect the search for water

Индийский аппарат передал первые данные с Луны, почва которой оказалась горячей

Температура на ее поверхности составила 70 градусов по Цельсию

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