A key date for Chandrayaan-3 as Vikram lander to separate today
Vikram lander is expected to separate from the spacecraft's propulsion module on Thursday. The lander and rover, Pragyaan, are scheduled to land on the Moon on August 23, a moment, which if successful, will boost India's space ambitions. Chandrayaan-3 is the gritty India's fightback after failures and heartbreaks.
Not only ISRO and the country's leaders, but citizens too will want a soft landing and propel India to a new zenith in the this field. Before that, today is the day for the imminent separation of the landing module, housing Vikram and Pragyan, from the propulsion module and they will set off for their own journeys. On August 16, the Indian Space Research Organisation said that Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has successfully undergone fifth and final lunar orbit manoeuvre.
Post the manoeuvre accomplished on Wednesday, another manoeuvre is slated for Thursday, designed for the separation of the lander. This action will require Vikram to be repositioned into an elliptical orbit. Subsequent manoeuvres will be executed by ISRO to precisely adjust the landing module's trajectory to achieve this feat.
The meticulously planned de-boost manoeuvres are projected to position Vikram into an orbit characterized by a Perilune (closest point to the Moon) of 30km and an Apolune (farthest point from the Moon) of 100km. It is from this particular orbital configuration that the ultimate landing endeavor will be undertaken. India's ambitious third Moon mission's spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 after the launch on July 14, had entered into lunar orbit or the Moon's orbit on August 5.
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