India has achieved a significant milestone by being the first country to land on the Moon’s south pole with its Chandrayaan-3 probe. This success happened shortly after Russia’s Luna-25, which was also headed for the same area, unfortunately crashed on the lunar…
Chandrayaan 3's Pragyan rover is now on the lunar surface: what is it and what will it do?
August 24, 2023
Minutes after India’s Vikram lander made a historic touchdown at the moon’s south pole, the next phase of the Chandrayaan 3 mission began as the Pragyan rover rolled out onto the unexplored region of the Earth’s nearest neighbor.
With the Vikram lander and…
India’s ambitious moon mission Chandrayaan-3 will be making a soft landing on the lunar surface even if everything fails, ISRO chairman S Somanath has said.
Although it sounds like a safe maneuver, soft landings are generally known as “15 minutes of terror”…