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Chandrayaan-3: India is likely to become the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s South Pole, following Russia’s failed attempt in the same area due to an engine issue.
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After Russia’s Luna-25 crashed into the moon on Sunday, Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled to touchdown at 6:04 p.m. local time on Wednesday. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Chandrayaan-3 is ready to make history by landing on the moon’s undiscovered South Pole, with an attempted soft landing slated for 18:04 hours IST.
Over the duration of one lunar day, which is similar to 14 days on Earth, a rover named Pragyan, or wisdom, will analyse the chemical makeup of the moon’s surface and seek for water.
ISRO Chairman S Somanath took over as ISRO Chairman in January 2022, becoming a vital player in India’s ambitious moon quest. He was previously the director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre.
Both of them are important locations for ISRO rocket technology development. He is in charge of missions such as Chandrayaan-3, Aditya-L1 (a mission to investigate the Sun), and Gaganyaan (India’s first human mission).
He is an expert in launch vehicle system engineering, and his contributions to PSLV and GSLV MkIII included overall architecture, propulsion stage design, structural and structural dynamics designs, separation systems, vehicle integration, and integration method development.
P Veeramuthuvel, Project Director of Chandrayaan-3: In 2019, P Veeramuthuvel was appointed Project Director of Chandrayaan-3. He is 46 years old and comes from a humble family in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram area. He holds a Ph.D. Veeramuthuvel graduated from the esteemed Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He succeeds Vanitha, who was the project director of the Chandrayaan-2 mission under former ISRO Chief K Sivan’s leadership. Prior to this, he was Deputy Director at ISRO’s main office’s Space Infrastructure Programme Office.
S Unnikrishnan Nair, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC): The Director of VSSC, which is based in Thumba, Kerala, is S Unnikrishnan Nair. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark-III, now known as the Launch Vehicle Mark-III, was developed by VSSC. S Unnikrishnan Nair and his colleagues handle several essential areas of this vital mission as the head of VSSC.
M Sankaran, Director of the U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC): M Sankaran was appointed Director of the U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in 2021. Sankaran leads the team in charge of developing satellites to satisfy India’s numerous demands, such as communication, navigation, remote sensing, weather forecasting, and planetary exploration. All of India’s satellites for ISRO are developed and built by URSC.
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