Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 08:20am on 23 Aug 2023,Wednesday Science
“Fifteen minutes of terror” is what former ISRO chief K Sivan had termed the landing phase of Chandrayaan-2 when ISRO aborted the first attempt to launch the Chandrayaan-2 mission. India will make another attempt at a lunar landing later today with the Chandrayaan-3 mission, four years after the partial failure of Chandrayaan-2. The Vikram lander will initiate its calculated descent sequence around 5:45pm IST, a tense 15-minute process. If successful, Vikram will touch down near the lunar South Pole, deploying the Pragyaan rover onto the surface and making India the fourth nation to operate a rover on the moon. Chandrayaan-3 aims to accomplish what its predecessor could not and firmly establish India's lunar exploration capabilities.
