Chandrayaan-3
India’s third moon exploration mission.
Slated for a mid-July launch — LVM3 (formerly GSLV Mk-III) rocket from Sriharikota.
The ISRO plans to retain the names of the Chandrayaan-2 lander and rover for their Chandrayaan-3 equivalents as well.
Safe landing – through the lander Vikram - (named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the Indian space programme)
Roving — through the rover Pragyan on the lunar surface.
Unlike Chandrayaan-2, it will not have an orbiter and its propulsion module will behave like a communications relay satellite.
Chandrayaan-3 interplanetary mission has three major modules: the Propulsion module, Lander module, and Rover.
Payloads:
The lander will have four payloads —
Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive Ionosphere and Atmosphere (RAMBHA)
Chandra’s Surface Thermo physical Experiment (ChaSTE).
The lander will have four payloads —
Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA)
LASER Retroreflector Array (LRA).
The six-wheeled rover will have two payloads —
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)
LASER Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS).
One payload on the propulsion module, the Spectro-polarimetry of HAbitable Planet Earth (SHAPE).
Implementation:
A propulsion module will carry the lander-rover configuration to a 100-km lunar orbit.
Once the Vikram lander module makes it safely to the moon, it will deploy Pragyan.
Pragyan will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface during the course of its mobility.
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