Chandrayaan-3

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Chandrayaan-3 (CHUN-drə-YAHN ; ; from Sanskrit: Chandra, "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019. Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July 2023, at 14:35 IST from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. It entered lunar orbit on 5 August, and touched down near the lunar south pole, at 69°S, on 23 August 2023 at 18:04 IST (12:34 UTC). With this landing, ISRO became the fourth national space agency to successfully land on the Moon, after the Soviet space program, NASA and CNSA, and the first in human history to achieve a soft landing near the lunar south pole. The lander was not built to withstand the cold temperatures of the lunar night, so it was shut down at sunset over the landing site, twelve days...

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