What next if ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 misses soft landing on moon's south pole today?
Hindustan Times. Another option if the soft landing is missed today, the window for the next soft landing will remain open for 14 days as the rover has a mission life of one lunar day, or 14 Earth days.
OP Gupta - a Senior Engineer with the Nehru Planetarium said that in case there comes any difficulty and the conditions are unsuitable, ISRO has kept enough fuel to sustain it for four more days. It has been made technically strong, the high resolution camera installed in Vikram lander will monitor the surface for safe landing from a height of 25km initially.
Earlier in 2019, ISRO had attempted a similar mission-Chandrayaan-2 but at that time due to some technical glitches, the lander of the spacecraft got crashed just minutes before landing. Without repeating the same errors, ISRO scientists have redesigned the technology of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, focused on what can fail and how to protect it and ensure a successful landing.
Meanwhile, the live telecast of the landing operations at Mission Operation Complex (MOX) will begin at 1720 IST on Wednesday. Live actions of landing will be available on the ISRO website, its YouTube channel, Facebook, and public broadcaster DD National TV from 17:27 IST on Aug 23, 2023.
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