India’s Chandrayaan-3 unmanned spacecraft has completed its 1,000-kilometer journey and landed on the Moon’s little-explored south pole.
FIRST COUNTRY TO DOWNLOAD TO THE LIGHTLY DISCOVERED SOUTH POLE OF THE MOON
India thus became the fourth country to achieve a “soft landing” on the Moon, after the United States, the Soviet Union and China, and the first to land on the Moon’s little-explored south pole.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed the landing of the spacecraft live.
Developed by the Indian Space Research Authority ISRO, Chandrayaan-3 consists of a landing module, thrust module and research vehicle. The spacecraft is scheduled to collect data and conduct some experiments to learn more about the Moon.
COST $75 MILLION
India successfully launched the rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 unmanned spacecraft from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island on July 14. It was announced that the space mission cost India about 75 million dollars.
Chandrayaan-1, which made India’s first trip to the Moon in 2008, discovered water molecules on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2 successfully entered orbit in 2019 but failed to land on the lunar surface.
On the other hand, on August 20, Russia’s spacecraft Luna-25 went out of control and crashed into the surface of the Moon and the landing failed. (UAV)