Science and Exploration

India’s Moon Shot Adds to Country’s Growing Space Endeavors

By Leonard David

SpaceRef

August 2, 2023

Filed under Chandrayaan-3, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Lunar Lander

India’s Moon Shot Adds to Country’s Growing Space Endeavors — Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and rover outfitted to its propulsion module.

Image credit: ISRO.

India’s ambitious Moon exploration spacecraft, the Chandrayaan-3, is now en route to its lunar target, following a successful burn this week. The lander is to unleash a rover, which like the lander itself is stuffed with scientific instruments to inspect the lunar surface in the southern lunar hemisphere.

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Leonard David

Leonard is author of Moon Rush: The New Space Race, Mars – Our Future on the Red Planet, and co-authored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration - all published by the National Geographic Society.