{"id":6803,"date":"2023-07-15T09:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T08:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/chandrayaan-3-off-to-moon-pm-hails-new-chapter-in-indias-space-odyssey\/%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T09:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T08:07:35","slug":"chandrayaan-3-off-to-moon-pm-hails-new-chapter-in-indias-space-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=6803","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3 Off To Moon, PM Hails &#8220;New Chapter In India&#8217;s Space Odyssey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-07\/rotit2lc_chandrayaan-3-launch_625x300_14_July_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Chandrayaan-3 Lifts Off, India's Third Moon Mission Begins\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Chandrayaan-3 Lifts Off, India's Third Moon Mission Begins\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Chandrayaan-3 Lifts Off, India's Third Moon Mission Begins\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-07\/rotit2lc_chandrayaan-3-launch_625x300_14_July_23.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-07-15T13:04:13+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=711386&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/Chandrayaan3Launch_205092_171072_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T0M46S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-07\/rotit2lc_chandrayaan-3-launch_625x300_14_July_23.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=711386&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Chandrayaan 3 is India&#8217;s third mission that will attempt a soft landing on the moon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Sriharikota: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/chandrayaan-3-launched-successfully-heres-when-it-will-land-on-the-moon-4206828\">India&#8217;s Chandrayaan-3<\/a> lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the hopes of an entire nation. If successful, the mission will make India the fourth country to achieve a controlled landing on the moon, after Russia, the United States, and China.<\/p>\n<p>The moon lander Vikram is perched on a Mark 3 heavy-lift launch vehicle &#8212; dubbed the Bahubali rocket.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LVM3 M4\/Chandrayaan-3 Mission:<br \/>LVM3 M4 vehicle\ud83d\ude80 successfully launched Chandrayaan-3\ud83d\udef0\ufe0f into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ISRO (@isro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isro\/status\/1679783216230858754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the launch as a &#8220;new chapter&#8221; in India&#8217;s space odyssey and said it has elevated the dreams and ambitions of every Indian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chandrayaan-3 scripts a new chapter in India&#8217;s space odyssey. It soars high, elevating the dreams and ambitions of every Indian,&#8221; PM Modi said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The journey from Earth to the moon for the spacecraft is estimated to take about a month and the landing is expected on August 23. Upon landing, it will operate for one lunar day, which is approximately 29 Earth days.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/chandrayaan-3-launch-live-updates-chandrayaan-3-to-lift-off-today-for-6-week-journey-to-moon-4206120\">Chandrayaan-3<\/a> will have three major components \u2014 a lander, a rover, and a propulsion model. It will be using the Orbiter from Chandrayaan-2 which still exists in the lunar atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>In a first, India&#8217;s mooncraft &#8216;Vikram&#8217; will land in the South Pole of the moon, where water molecules have been found. The finding, made during India&#8217;s first moon mission in 2008, had startled the world. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vikram is meant to have a safe, soft landing. The lander will then release the rover Pragyan, which will roam the moon&#8217;s surface for a lunar day and conduct scientific experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/chandrayaan-3-to-lift-off-today-for-the-6-week-journey-to-moon-10-points-4205795\">latest iteration of the Chandrayaan<\/a> comes four years after an earlier attempt failed, with the ground crew losing contact moments before landing.<\/p>\n<p>The ISRO&#8217;s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 failed while attempting to land in 2019. However, to avoid past failures, ISRO has corporate a series of changes in the upcoming mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main lacuna in the last Chandrayaan-2 mission was that there were off-nominal conditions that were initiated in the system. Everything was not nominal. And the craft was not able to handle the off-nominal condition for a safe landing,&#8221; ISRO Chief S Somnath told NDTV in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/indias-chandrayaan-3-mission-lifts-off-aims-to-reach-moon-in-40-days-4206754\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chandrayaan 3 is India&#8217;s third mission that will attempt a soft landing on the moon. Sriharikota: India&#8217;s Chandrayaan-3 lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the hopes of an entire nation. 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