Chandrayaan-3 consists of a lander and a rover, and it is going to be launched by the area company’s Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) system. The launch system’s propulsion module will carry the lander and rover configuration until it reaches a 100 kilometres lunar orbit, in line with ISRO. The propulsion module will even carry the SHAPE (Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth) instrument, which can examine the spectral and Polarimetric measurements of Earth from lunar orbit.

“Chandrayaan-3 has already reached the launch port, preparation is going on there at Sriharikota and we do expect that sometime in July the launch can take place,” M. Sankaran, director of the U.R. Rao Satellite Center, on Thursday, in line with The Hindu. The payload for the Chandrayaan-3 mission was assembled on the centre in Bengaluru.

The major goal of the Chandrayaan-3 mission is to show a delicate touchdown on the lunar floor. So far, solely three international locations have managed a delicate touchdown on the Moon—the erstwhile Soviet Union, the United States, and China. ISRO tried such a delicate touchdown with the Chandrayaan-2 mission, which ended in failure after the Vikram lander misplaced contact with mission management.

There have additionally been private-led missions that tried such a delicate touchdown. The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into the Moon simply moments earlier than its scheduled landing on April 11, 2019. If it had succeeded, it could have made historical past as the primary privately funded lunar touchdown.

More just lately, on April 25, 2023, the Hakuto lander built by Japanese space technology firm Ispace also failed to achieve a soft landing. The spacecraft took a circuitous four-month-long journey from the Earth, throughout which it lined a distance of 1.6 million kilometres.

“Every aspect of the mission has been looked at, particularly from the experience of Chandrayaan 2, and all possible precautions have been taken. The mood at ISRO is both upbeat as well as apprehensive,” stated Sankaran in an interview with News18.