S Somnath, ISRO chairman announced on Tuesday that Chandrayaan-3, Indias third lunar mission will be able to make a soft landing on the Moons surface with Vikram lander on August 23.The chief said that they have planned everything in a way that if all the sensors and two of its engines do not work, it gets land smoothly.Chandrayaan-3 Mission:“MOX, ISTRAC, this is Chandrayaan-3. I am feeling lunar gravity 🌖”🙂Chandrayaan-3 has been successfully inserted into the lunar orbit.A retro-burning at the Perilune was commanded from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX), ISTRAC, Bengaluru.The next… pic.twitter.com/6T5acwiEGb— ISRO (@isro) August 5, 2023Somnath while talking about Chandrayaan-3: Bharats Pride Space Mission, hosted by the non-profit organisation Disha Bharat, claimed that the lander Vikram has been designed in such a way that it will be able to handle the failures.“If everything fails, if all the sensors fail, nothing works, still it (Vikram) will make a landing. Thats how it has been designed, provided that the propulsion system works well,” Somnath said.According to the latest update from ISRO, LBN#2 is successfully completed. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is in 170 km x 4313 km orbit around the moon.It is to be noted here that the spacecraft of Chandrayaan-3 successfully entered the lunar orbit on Saturday and has travelled nearly two-thirds of the distance to the Moon since its launch on July 14.The organisation also shared a video clip showcasing it. Watch here:The Moon, as viewed by #Chandrayaan3 spacecraft during Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) on August 5, 2023.#ISRO pic.twitter.com/xQtVyLTu0c— LVM3-M4/CHANDRAYAAN-3 MISSION (@chandrayaan_3) August 6, 2023The spacecraft will make the soft landing in the South Polar region of the Moon on August 23, 2023.
