ISRO Chairman S Somanath confirmed that the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft s lander Vikram successfully landed within the designated area on the Moon s surface. The landing location was marked as 4.5 km x 2.5 km, and the lander touched down within 300 meters of the intended point.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bengaluru to congratulate the team of scientists on the successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission. Modi, who was in Johannesburg for the BRICS summit, watched the spacecraft s descent and personally called the ISRO director to express his happiness.
India is all set to witness the last endeavor of its indigenous spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 s soft landing on the lunar surface on Wednesday. The touch down is scheduled for 6:04 pm on August 23, said the Indian Space Research Oranisation (ISRO) in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Here s all you need to know about the team behind India s Moon mission.
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