ISRO Announces Launch Date For Chandrayaan 3 Mission On July 14

The official launch date for the Chandrayaan 3 lunar mission has been announced by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for this month. The upcoming space mission to the Moon is scheduled to commence on Friday, July 14 at 2:35 PM IST from SDSC, Sriharikota. This information was shared by the space agency through a post on Thursday.

ISRO has also said that LVM3-M4 is the launch vehicle that is going ahead with the Chandrayaan-3 mission and that Chandrayaan 3 has already been docked with this launch vehicle.

ISRO hopes to eventually make the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft soft land on the surface of the Moon. Earlier, ISRO had talked about a mid-July launch timeline, which is expected to land on the Moon’s surface on August 23. Next week’s launch will be broadcast live on various platforms, keeping you up to date with the launch vehicle’s progress as it leaves Earth’s atmosphere.

According to reports, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has been tested and is encapsulated inside the rocket’s payload fairing or heat shield. It is being prepared at Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh. The primary objective of this mission is to land the lander safely on the lunar surface, followed by the use of the rover to conduct various experiments.

Compared to the previous lander involved in the Chandrayaan-2 mission, the current lander has undergone several changes. It now has four engines instead of five, and certain software changes have also been made. We still don’t know the exact details, such as the name of the lander and rover that will be used for this mission.

An important addition to the upcoming Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission is the inclusion of spectropolarimetry for the SHAPE payload of a habitable planet. This advanced instrument is designed to perform extensive surveys and gather valuable information from Earth’s spectral and polarimeter measurements from the Moon’s orbit.

This payload will play a crucial role in expanding our knowledge of Earth and advancing scientific research in the field of planetary exploration.