NEW DELHI: The Chandrayaan-3 moon mission will be launched in July by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which has combined the spacecraft with the Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) launch vehicle. On July 5, ISRO tweeted: The encapsulated assembly containing Chandrayaan-3 gets mated with LVM3 today at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
At the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, the payload fairing was attached to India's largest rocket. On July 13, the Chandrayaan-3 mission will blast out for the Moon with the goal of studying the geology of Earth's lone natural satellite. The 3900-kg spacecraft was initially enclosed in the rocket's payload fairing at the UR Rao Satellite Centre before being transported and integrated onto the rocket that would launch it beyond Earth's orbit and put it on a track towards the Moon almost 3,84,000 km beyond the planet.
The lander, rover, and propulsion module are all contained in the payload fairing at the top of the rocket, where they will travel for 100 km above the Moon before separating.
According to the Indian space agency, the lander would be able to soft land at a predetermined location on the moon and install the rover, which would then do in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface as it was moving.
The Chandrayaan-2 mission, which impaled itself on the Moon's surface four years ago in 2019, was followed by this ambitious expedition.
India will become only the fourth nation in the world to accomplish this feat when the Chandrayaan-3 mission explores the South Polar Region of the Moon and makes an attempt at soft landing there.
The lander being launched with Chandrayaan-3 will be equipped with the Langmuir Probe to determine the plasma density and its variations, the Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity to estimate the seismicity around the landing site, the Chandra Surface Thermophysical Experiment to measure thermal conductivity and temperature, and the Chandra Surface Thermophysical Experiment.
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