The Chandrayaan-3 mission, which is a follow-up mission to Chandrayaan-2, India's lunar exploration program. Chandrayaan-3 is intended to further demonstrate India's capabilities in lunar exploration, specifically focusing on achieving a successful soft landing and deploying a rover on the lunar surface.
Chandrayan-3 Mission Details:
Objective: The main objective of Chandrayaan-3 is to showcase India's capability for a successful soft landing on the lunar surface and to deploy a rover to explore the Moon's terrain.
Configuration: Chandrayaan-3 consists of a Lander and Rover configuration. The lander is the spacecraft that is designed to make a controlled descent to the lunar surface, and the rover is a mobile vehicle that can move across the lunar terrain to conduct scientific experiments.
Launch Vehicle: Chandrayaan-3 will be launched into space using the LVM3 (Launch Vehicle Mark-3), which is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The launch will take place from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, located in Sriharikota, India.
Propulsion Module: The propulsion module is responsible for carrying the lander and rover configuration to a lunar orbit. It will take the combined spacecraft to a lunar orbit around 100 kilometers above the lunar surface.
Payload: The propulsion module also carries a payload called "Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth" (SHAPE). This payload is designed to perform spectral and polarimetric measurements of Earth from the lunar orbit. This could potentially provide valuable scientific insights about Earth from a unique vantage point.
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| Chandrayan-3 Integrated Module (Image Source: ISRO) |
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| Chandrayan-3 Lander Module (Image Source: ISRO) |
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| Chandrayan-3 Rover (Image Source: ISRO) |
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| Chandrayan-3 Mission Profile (Image Source: ISRO) |
