Chennai, July 25 : India’s moon-bound spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3, travelled further towards its destination with the Indian space agency on Tuesday raising its orbit further for the fifth time.
On August 1, the Chandrayaan-3 will take the ‘moon spaceway’ when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will guide it to the TransLunar Injection (TLI).
On Tuesday, the ISRO said: “The orbit-raising maneuver (Earth-bound perigee firing) is performed successfully from ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru.The spacecraft is expected to attain an orbit of 127609 km x 236 km.The achieved orbit will be confirmed after the observations.”
“The next firing, the TransLunar Injection (TLI), is planned for August 1, 2023, between 12 midnight and 1 am IST,” the ISRO said.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was put into orbit on July 15, in a copybook style by India’s heavy lift rocket LVM3.On the same day, the first orbit raising was done and the second orbit raising was carried out on July 17.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft comprises a propulsion module (weighing 2,148 kg), a lander (1,723.89 kg), and a rover (26 kg), the ISRO said.
The main object of the mission is to safely land the lander on the lunar soil.The lander will get separated from the propulsion module a couple of days after it enters lunar orbit and is expected to make a soft-landing near the South Pole of the moon at 5.47 p.m.on August 23.
The lander will descend to the moon from a height of about 100 km from the moon’s surface.The soft landing is a tricky issue as it involves a series of complex manoeuvres consisting of rough and fine braking.Imaging of the landing site region prior to landing will be done for finding safe and hazard-free zones.
Subsequent to the soft landing, the six-wheeled rover will roll out and carry out experiments on the lunar surface for a period of one lunar day which is equal to 14 Earth days.
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