Chandrayaan-3 Successfully Enters Moon Orbit

Chandrayaan-3 successfully enters Moon orbit

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(ISRO) on Friday launched its ambitious third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, and announced a “successful” separation of satellite into the orbit

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The robotic vehicle is named as ‘Pragyan’, which translates to 'wisdom' in Sanskrit

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The lander and rover’s names have been taken from the last mission Chandrayaan-2

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ISRO has set 4 km x 2.4 km 69.367621 S, 32.348126 E on the lunar surface as potential landing site for the Chandrayaan-3

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It cruised in an orbit 288 kilometres nearest to Earth and 3,69,328 kilometres at its farthest point

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Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is set to complete 5-6 orbits around the moon, gradually transitioning to a circular 100-kilometre orbit

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India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was recently spotted by private astronomers using a telescope

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India aims to be the 4th nation to ever achieve a soft landing on the moon

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Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) manoeuvre was completed successfully today (August 05, 2023). With this, Chandrayaan 3 has been successfully inserted into a Lunar orbit

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The next Lunar bound orbit manoeuvre is scheduled tomorrow (August 06, 2023), around 23:00 hrs IST

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The health of the spacecraft is being continuously monitored from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru. All the systems of Chandrayaan-3 are healthy

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