As news of the failure of Russia’s Luna-25 mission broke on Sunday, ISRO said that Chandrayaan-3 was on course to land on Aug. 23.
India’s space agency on Monday released images its spacecraft took of the far side of the moon as it headed for an attempted landing on the lunar south pole, just days after the failure of a Russian lander.
The mission — Chandrayaan means “moon vehicle” in Hindi and Sanskrit — is India’s second attempt to land on the south pole of the moon. In 2019, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission successfully deployed an orbiter but its lander crashed. India’s moon mission blasted off on July 14, and the lander module of Chandrayaan-3 separated from the propulsion module last week.
Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for "moon craft" in Sanskrit, launches from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on July 14.It would also boost India’s reputation for cost-competitive space engineering. The Chandrayaan-3 was launched with a budget of about 6.15 billion rupees , less than the cost to produce the 2013 Hollywood space thriller “Gravity”.
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