India’s third moon mission’s spacecraft inched closer to lunar landing, with the significant Lunar Orbit Injection (LOI) undertaken on August 5 at approximately 7:00 pm.
Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, travels after it was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, Friday, July 14, 2023, reports Hindustan Times quoting AP.
“I am feeling lunar gravity,” Chandrayaan-3’s message to ISRO after successfully entering Moon’s orbit
India’s third unmanned Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 on Saturday successfully entered the lunar orbit, 22 days after it was launched for a far more complicated 41-day voyage to reach the lunar south pole where no other nation has gone before.
The required maneuver that brought it closer to the moon was carried out without any glitch from the space facility in Bengaluru. The injection into the lunar orbit marked a major milestone in the space agency’s ambitious ₹600 crore mission.
The spacecraft has covered about two-thirds of the distance to the Moon since its launch on July 14 and the next 18 days will be crucial for the Indian Space Research Organization.