Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft reaches launch port ahead of next month’s launch
The Hindu
“Chandrayaan-3 has already reached the launch port, preparation is going on there at Sriharikota and we do expect that sometime in July the launch can take place,” said U.R. Satellite Centre Director M. Sankaran on Thursday.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has reached the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota from where it is most likely to be launched next month.
After the final assembly of payloads at the U.R. Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru, the spacecraft for India’s third moon mission has reached Sriharikota.
“Chandrayaan-3 has already reached the launch port, preparation is going on there at Sriharikota and we do expect that sometime in July the launch can take place,” said U.R. Satellite Centre Director M. Sankaran on Thursday.
Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface.
It can be recalled that the Chandrayaan-2’s Lander crashed while attempting to make a landing on the moon surface in 2019.
Mr. Sankaran said that ISRO has looked into various aspects of what happened to Chandrayaan-2 and that all precautions have been taken to ensure that the upcoming mission is successful.
Also read: Chandrayaan 3 likely to be launched in mid-2023: ISRO
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