It is a historical fact for the Asian country. The objective is to explore a sector that has never been reached before, where its water ice is located.
India became the first country in successfully land an unmanned spacecraft in the unexplored south pole of the moon. The landing of the ship Chandrayaan-3what does it mean “moon ship” in Sanskrit, occurred at 18 indian time (12:34 GMT).
In turn, the asian country is the fourth nation in achieving land on Earth’s natural satellite, entering the select group that today forms the Soviet Union, the USA and China. But, the first to do so in that lunar sectorwhere are your water ice.
The mission to the moon It is a historic moment for the world’s most populous country, which is trying to quickly close the gap with other powers with a low cost space program.
This probe, composed of a lander and an explorerhas practically the same objectives as the previous mission of 2019although its structure was widely reinforced to correct the errors that led to Chandrayaan-2 will crash into the surface.
The former head of the Indian space program, K.Sivansaid that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had corrected the errors of four years ago, when the scientists they lost contact with the lunar module shortly before landing.
He mission objective is that he vikram landeran apparatus of almost two tons will deploy a ramp through which Pragyan rover will descenda six-wheeled vehicle that will be able to roll a few hundred meters around the landing point to study the lunar surface.
The Indian space program failed in 2019
The mission took off almost ago six weeksbut it took much longer to reach the Moon than those of the American program Apollo in the 1960s and 1970s, which reached the satellite in a few days.
Indian used less powerful rockets than those used by the United States then, so they must orbit several times in the Land to gain speed before heading for the Moon.
Source: Ambito
