ISRO to launch moon mission Chandrayaan-3 on July 14. Check details

ISRO announces that Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar mission, will be launched on July 14, 2023, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota

               ISRO's LVM3 carrying Chandrayaan-3 being moved to the launch pad ahead of its launch

The moon project Chandrayaan-3 will launch on July 14 according to a statement made by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Thursday. At 2:35 PM, Isro's new heavylift launch vehicle, LVM-3, will launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

The launch date was announced by ISRO on Twitter. The space agency tweeted, "Announcing the launch of Chandrayaan-3: LVM3-M4/Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The launch is now scheduled for July 14, 2023, at 2:35 pm IST from SDSC, Sriharikota."


Isro Chairman S. Somnath stated that Chandrayaan-3 will launch on July 14 and, if all goes well, will land on August 23 during a conference of the G20 Space Economy Leaders.

"Chandrayaan-3 will launch on July 14 at 2:35 p.m., and if all goes well, it will land on August 23. The calculations will determine the date, which is dependent on the time of the moon's sunrise. If the calculations are off, however, we will have to postpone the landing until September, he added.

 


Isro integrated Chandrayaan-3's encapsulated assembly with the LVM3 launch vehicle on Wednesday at SDSC.

The chairman of ISRO, S. Somnath, had previously stated that the organization was aiming to launch its third lunar mission between July 13 and July 19.

"Chandrayaan-3 is nearly finished. Testing and final integration are almost finished. We want to do it a little later because there are still some unfinished testing. Two seats were open, one in February and the other in June. We would hope to launch in June of 2023," he had stated.

In order to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and wandering on the lunar surface, Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-up mission to Chandrayaan-2.

The mission, according to the officials, carries scientific equipment to investigate the elements composition close to the landing location, lunar surface plasma environment, lunar seismicity, and the thermophysical properties of the lunar regolith.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully finished the crucial tests in March of this year that verified its capacity to resist the challenging vibration and acoustic environment that the spacecraft would encounter during its launch.

On July 22, 2019, the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota launched Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar mission. However, the mission was unsuccessful after the lunar lander Vikram crashed on the Moon in the early hours of September 6.

(With inputs from agencies)


 

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