Chandrayaan 3 And Aditya L1 Will Possibly Be Launched In Middle Of 2023: ISRO Chief

NEW DELHI: The launch of Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar mission, and Aditya L1, the country's first solar mission, could take place by the middle of 2023, according to ISRO chairman S. Somanath on Wednesday.

He was giving the opening address on "Indian Capacity for Space and Planetary Exploration" at the fourth Indian Planetary Science Conference, which was held at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in this city.

"The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is complete. There are corrections being made, of course, and we are increasing our confidence in the mission through numerous tests and simulations, among other things. And perhaps by the middle of this year, the launch will occur.”

He declared that Aditya-L1, India's first solar mission, will "have instruments that have already been delivered for this extremely special solar observation capacity, and ISRO is integrating them into the satellite."

Somanath, who is also the Secretary of the Department of Space, stated, "I am also eagerly awaiting this (Aditya-L1) launch to occur, maybe by the middle of this year, and I am sure we will make this mission a tremendous success."

Chandrayaan-3, according to ISRO, is a follow-up mission to Chandrayaan-2 and aims to show that safe lunar landing and wandering are possible from beginning to conclusion.

Somanath stated that the Chandrayaan-3 project would contain an orbiter, a lander, and a rover, identical to the Chandrayaan-2 mission.

"Naturally, all of the payloads from Chandrayaan-2 are not present on the orbiter. There won't be much payload on it. Yet getting the lander into the moon's orbit and getting it to land is the main goal. A precise landing is going to be Chandrayaan-3's main goal.”

"Today, a lot of effort is being put into this direction, including creating new instruments, improving algorithms, handling failure modes, etc.," he explained.

According to Somanath, these parts of the mission are now being enhanced, while the scientific goals are largely unchanged from those of the earlier lunar missions.

"Let's hope that Chandrayaan-3 will land properly this time, and of course, that the rover will emerge and conduct exploration at least for the lunar day on the moon's surface, which is going to be incredibly fascinating," he said.

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