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The day India's Chandrayaan-3 landed on the Moon was a very proud day for us Indians. Almost all of India watched with bathed breath as the spacecraft neared the lunar surface, glued to their screens! I would very much like to know your experience that historic day, while waiting for Ch-3 to land, so please let me know in the comments section!
Everybody here has heard about ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organisation) Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft recently becoming the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the south pole of the Moon. The Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover made many interesting observation and conducted quite a few experiments, the more important ones being, discovering sulphur on the moon and conducting a small 'hop'.
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ISRO is continuing with its ambitious plans, and now is aiming to brink back rock samples from the Moon with Chandrayaan-4!
As per early reports, ISRO plans to send a total of 4 modules to the Moon as part of CH-4, across 2 launches. First, ISRO will send a lander and ascender to the Moon, which would most likely land near the now defunct Ch-3 lander and rover, which is a region of interest of space agencies all around the globe, due to the presence of water ice.
According to Nilesh Desai, director, ISRO's Space Application Centre(SAC), the Launch Vehicle Module (LVM) Mark- III will be used for the launches.
The remaining 2 modules would be the transfer module and reentry module, which will remain in lunar orbit. After landing and collecting the samples, the ascender module will blast off from the Moon and transfer the samples to the transfer and reentry modules, which would then return back to Earth and most likely splash down in an ocean.
Two robotic arms will be used, first at the landing point, to collect samples, and the second, to transfer the samples from the ascender module to the reentry module.
The timeframe for achieving this mission is said to be between 2028 and 2030.
That is all I have about this mission, for now. I will post additional info and mission specifications as soon as I get them.
#ToTheMoon
Cheers,
Aarav Iyer
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