On Friday, July 14, at 2.35 PM IST, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s Chandrayaan-3 mission is scheduled to launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. As part of the nation's ambitious moon programme, Chandrayaan-3 will be launched today by the "fat boy" LVM3-M4 rocket. The Chandrayaan-3 project consists of a lander module, a rover module, and an indigenous propulsion module and aims to develop and demonstrate new technologies required for interplanetary missions. The SDSC-SHAR in Sriharikota is counting down. The L110 stage's propellant loading process is finished. The C25 stage is starting to fill with propellant, the ISRO tweeted on Friday, just before liftoff. The Chandrayaan-3 project, which comes after Chandrayaan-2, aims to demonstrate a number of capabilities, including reaching the lunar orbit, performing a soft landing on the lunar surface with a lander, and sending a rover out of the lander to investigate the lunar surface.
Scientists anticipate that around 16 minutes after launch, the propulsion module will separate from the rocket and begin an approximately 5- to 6-times elliptical orbit around the earth, travelling towards the lunar orbit at distances of 170 km from the planet and 36,500 km from it. After picking up speed, the propulsion module and the lander would travel for more than a month to reach the moon's orbit, stopping 100 km above the surface. The lander module would start its descent for a soft landing on the south pole region of the moon after reaching the desired position, and this activity is anticipated to occur on August 23 or 24, according to reports from ISRO scientists. The first spacecraft to touch down at the lunar south pole would be Chandrayaan-3.
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