Chandrayaan-3 LIVE updates: ‘Deboosting’ of Indian spacecraft today; Here's what it means

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Catch all the latest updates on Chandrayaan-3 Mission at Mint LIVE blog:Chandrayaan-3 LIVE: India's first mission to Moon was Chandrayaan-1 which was launched on 22 October 2008. The spacecraft carried 11 scientific instruments built in India, the US, the Uk, Germany, Sweden, and Bulgaria.

Chnadrayaan-1 orbited around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical, and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The satellite made more than 3400 orbits around the moon and the mission was concluded when the communication with the spacecraft was lost on August 29, 2009.Chandrayaan-3 LIVE: According to ISRO chief S Somanath, there were three reasons that led to the crashlanding of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander on 6 September 2019 just minutes before the touchdown.

The ISRO chief said, "five engines of the lander generating higher thrust, limitation of the software to detect errors and small landing site" were the main reasons that led to the failure of Chandrayaan-2.Chandrayaan-3 LIVE: Chandrayaan-3 mission is important because it is India's space agency, ISRO's second attempt to send a spacecraft to the Moon's south polar region. In 2019, ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 failed as the Lander Vikram crashed during the soft landing on the Moon.With Chandrayaan-3, ISRO has high hopes that the spacecraft will be successful in completing its objectives.

Moon serves as a repository of the Earth’s past and a successful lunar mission by India will help enhance life on Earth while also enabling it to explore the rest of the solar system and beyond.Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft are very close to the Moon. The spacecraft's lander module will descend to undergo a crucial deboosting manoeuvre today.