Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram Lander Soft-Landed On moon, Again
Chandrayaan 3 mission”s Vikram Lander soft landed on the Moon again, Indian space agency ISRO announced today. The Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO said the Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives and successfully underwent a hop experiment.
The Vikram lander is a box-shaped spacecraft with four landing legs and four landing thrusters. It is responsible for the soft landing of Chandrayaan 3 mission on the Moon and it carried the rover and various scientific instruments to perform on-site analysis.
Vikram Lander, on command, fired the engines and elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 – 40 cm away, the ISRO said in an X post.
“All systems performed nominally and are healthy. Deployed Ramp, ChaSTE and ILSA were folded back and redeployed successfully after the experiment,” the space agency said.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
🇮🇳Vikram soft-landed on 🌖, again!Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives. It successfully underwent a hop experiment.
On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 – 40 cm away.… pic.twitter.com/T63t3MVUvI
— ISRO (@isro) September 4, 2023
On August 23, India became the fourth country to land on the surface of Moon after US, Russia and China and the first one to touch the south pole of the only natural satellite of Earth.
