The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) ambitious mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft is scheduled to make soft landing on the south pole of lunar surface at around 6:04 pm on Wednesday. The space agency also shared that people can watch the historic event live on the ISRO website, the space agency’s official YouTube channel, ISRO’s Facebook page and DD National from 5:27 pm onwards on the 23rd of August.
Earlier this morning, ISRO announced that Chandrayaan-3’s lander module comprising lander ‘Vikram’ and rover ‘Pragyan’, has successfully completed its second and final deboosting, which reduced the lander module orbit to 25km by 134km in the wee hours. The spacecraft’s Vikram lander successfully completed its first deboosting operation at 4 pm on August 18, reducing the lander module’s orbit to 113km x 157km.
A successful Moon landing will make India the fourth country to have achieved this feat.
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