The lander of the Indian station “Chandrayan-3” sat on the surface of the moon

The lander of the Indian lunar station Chandrayaan-3 successfully made a soft landing at the south pole of the moon, broadcast hosted on the Youtube channel of the Indian Space Research Organization.

India, as a result, became the fourth country in the world to achieve a soft landing on the moon – after the USSR, the USA and China.

“When we see such historical moments, we feel great pride. This is the dawn of a new India,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi commented on the successful landing (quote by Times of India).

The mission launched on July 14, when the LVM-3 carrier rocket with the apparatus was launched from the country’s main spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. August 5 station “Chandrayan-3” (from Sanskrit – “lunar apparatus”) came out into lunar orbit, which was the third successful entry into orbit of an Earth satellite in the history of the country. In 2019, as part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, the spacecraft successfully entered orbit, but its lander crashed.

Apparatus, notes Reuters, will work for about two weeks, conducting a series of experiments, including a spectrometric analysis of the mineral composition of the lunar surface.

The Russian station Luna-25, launched earlier this month, crashed August 19 – preliminary due to the fact that its propulsion system, when trying to go into pre-landing orbit, worked for 127 seconds instead of 84.

Earlier in July, Roskosmos proposed to the BRICS countries to create a module as part of a promising Russian orbital station (ROS). How wrote Vedomosti, India is not yet interested in the project. As Shri Nilesh M. Desai, Director of the Space Application Center of the Indian Department of Astronautics in Ahmedabad, said, India is cooperating with Russia in transmitting information on global positioning and remote sensing, in particular, within the framework of the international disaster data exchange system.