Today, August 23, 2023, ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 lunar exploration mission successfully landed on the moon at 6:04 PM IST (5:34 AM PT). The mission was launched on a Bahubali LVM3-M4 rocket carrying a lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan on July 14 this year which I had logged here.
With this landing, India has become the fourth nation to make a soft landing on the moon, after the former Soviet Union, the U.S. and China. It has also become the first country to land on the lunar south pole, which is still an unexplored area.
ISRO's Tweet on the successful landing:
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023
'India,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.
Congratulations, India!#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3
Below is the saved live stream of the landing on YouTube. The final phase of the descent starts at 35:13.
ISRO tweeted the first images received from the lander:
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023
Updates:
The communication link is established between the Ch-3 Lander and MOX-ISTRAC, Bengaluru.
Here are the images from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera taken during the descent. #Chandrayaan_3#Ch3 pic.twitter.com/ctjpxZmbom
Earlier on November 10, 2009, with the Chandrayaan-1 mission, ISRO made a deliberate crash landing of its Moon Impact Probe (MIP) which helped discover water molecules on the moon.
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