Chandrayaan-3 s Vikram lander now serving as Moon s South Pole location marker: The recent achievement of transmitting and reflecting a laser beam between ISRO s Vikram lander and NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has significant implications for future space missions. This successful experiment opens up opportunities for accurately locating targets on the moon s surface.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that Chandrayaan-3 s Vikram lander is serving as a location marker near the lunar south pole. The US space agency NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signals reflected by the Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) on the lander using the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA).
Japan hopes to make the world s first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Japan s attempt to bring down its lander at a precise location follows the April failure of a Japanese company s spacecraft that apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon.
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