India is set to launch Chandrayaan-2, the nation’s first lunar landing mission on July 15 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Chandrayaan-2 is being readied at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota for an early morning launch at 2:51 AM on Monday, an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official said.
The countdown for the same is scheduled at 6:51 AM on Sunday, July 14.
The GSLV Mk-III rocket that weighs 640 tonnes will carry the 3.8-tonne Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft.
The GSLV Mk-III will blast off with an ambitious dream of landing a rover on the Moon’s south polar region, making India the fourth nation to ride on the Moon surface after the US, Russia and China.
The ‘Bahubali’ or GSLV Mk-III rocket is a three-stage rocket with a solid strap-on for an initial thrust into Earth’s atmosphere, a liquid core booster which is the primary source of thrust, and a cryogenic engine for the last minute thrust after the strap-on and core booster detach from the rocket.’
According to the ISRO, the Chandrayaan-II will be injected into an Earth parking 170×40400 km orbit. The Chandrayaan-II consists of three segments – the Orbiter, the lander Vikram and rover Pragyaan.
On the day of landing, the lander Vikram, named after space pioneer Vikram Sarabhai, will separate from the Orbiter and then perform a series of complex manoeuvres comprising rough braking and fine braking.
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