ISRO chairman S Somanath shared the critical elements in the spacecraft’s nearly 4000,000km journey to the Moon.
ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Wednesday toasted the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, crediting it to the ‘pain and agony’ of all the scientists who persevered on it, and expressed confidence that the space agency would similarly land a spacecraft on Mars in the coming years.
While addressing the media, a jubilant ISRO Chairman S Somanath shared about the most critical elements in Chandrayaan 3’s journey.
He said, “The most difficult part of the mission is the launch itself… You should not forget that the GSLV Mark 3 (the rocket that launched the Chandrayaan-3 module that contains the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover) did the job of putting the spacecraft into the right orbit.”
“It went to 36,500 km and up to trans-lunar injection (which is a propulsive move used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory to the Moon) phase it went very well,” Mr Somnath…