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The process of orbit rising was carried out at ISRO’s Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru.
Scientists of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully completed the first orbit raising process of Chandrayaan-3 on Saturday. This process was done at ISRO’s Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru. By July 31, the process of orbit rising will be done 4 more times.
ISRO told in a social media post, ‘Chandrayaan-3 is in perfect condition. The vehicle is in such an orbit (orbit), which is 173 kilometers at its closest point to the Earth and 41,762 kilometers at its farthest point.
The vehicle reached the Earth’s orbit 16 minutes after launching
ISRO successfully launched Chandrayaan-3 on July 14 at 2.35 am. Chandrayaan was sent into space through an LVM3-M4 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Chandrayaan was successfully placed in Earth’s orbit 16 minutes after launch. This orbit was at a distance of 170 km when it was closest to the Earth and 36,500 km when it was farthest.
16 minutes after launching, Chandrayaan-3 was delivered to the Earth’s orbit by the rocket.
Lander and Rover will land on the moon on August 23
ISRO Chief S Somnath told that if everything goes according to plan, the vehicle will land on the moon at 5.47 pm on August 23. Chandrayaan-3 has Lander, Rover and Propulsion Module. The lander and rover will land on the Moon’s South Pole and conduct experiments there for 14 days.
The propulsion module will study the radiation coming from the Earth by staying in the Moon’s orbit. Through the mission, ISRO will find out how earthquakes occur on the lunar surface. It will also study the lunar soil.
India will become the fourth country to do so
If there is success in soft landing i.e. the mission is successful, then after America, Russia and China, India will become the fourth country to do so. There were several spacecraft crashes before both the US and Russia successfully landed on the Moon. China is the only country to be successful in its first attempt with the Chang’e-3 mission in 2013.
Chandrayaan-3 cheaper than the budget of Adipurush film
The budget of Chandrayaan-3 without launching cost is around Rs 615 crore, while the budget of the recent film Adipurush was Rs 700 crore. Means Chandrayaan-3 is about 85 crore rupees cheaper than the cost of this movie. The cost of Chandrayaan 2 sent 4 years before this was also Rs 603 crores. At the same time, 375 crore rupees were spent on its launching.
See in the graphic how Chandrayaan-3 will reach the moon…
