India’s ambitious lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 is on track as spacecraft is now just three-day away from its final destination, the moon’s south pole.
ISRO is bidding to make a successful soft landing on the moon, which will make India the 4th country in the world to achieve the feat. It has been a month and six days since the Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14. As per ISRO, Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the moon on August 23 around 18:04 hrs. The second and final deboosting operation of Chandrayaan-3 was carried out successfully on August 20.
Following this, the module would undergo internal checks and the powered descent is expected to start on August 23. Minister of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the countdown has begun for landing. The spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota.