NEW DELHI, Jul 14 Launch vehicle with Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 and lunar rover successfully launched from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, footage of the launch was shown on a broadcast hosted by the Indian Space Research Organization.
After the device enters the lunar orbit, the landing module of the Chandrayaan-3 mission will have to deliver the lunar rover to the lunar surface. It is planned that the lunar rover equipped with various research equipment will analyze the surface of the Earth's natural satellite. The mission of the lunar rover is designed for 14 Earth days.
The launch of the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission was originally scheduled for 2020, later for the first half of 2021, and then was postponed to August 2022. The change in launch dates came amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as reforms in the Indian space sector and the introduction of new models.
Mission «Chandrayan-3» is designed to correct possible errors made during the launch of the previous mission «Chandrayan-2».
The Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 entered the orbit of the Moon on August 20, 2019. In September of the same year, the Vikram module was supposed to make a controlled descent to the lunar surface. The descent of the apparatus proceeded normally, however, at an altitude of 2.1 kilometers, a failure and deviation from the route occurred, the details of which are still unclear. Then the communication «Vikram» with the command post was lost. After a series of unsuccessful attempts, the Indian Space Research Organization has stopped making efforts to restore contact with it. 50 years of Russian mission to the Moon'>