{"id":364194,"date":"2023-09-04T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/09\/04\/a-hop-experiment-chandrayaan-3-lander-makes-a-moon-touchdown-again\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:18:00","slug":"a-hop-experiment-chandrayaan-3-lander-makes-a-moon-touchdown-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/09\/04\/a-hop-experiment-chandrayaan-3-lander-makes-a-moon-touchdown-again\/","title":{"rendered":"“A Hop Experiment”: Chandrayaan-3 Lander Makes A Moon Touchdown, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chandrayaan-3 Moon Landing: India made history last month<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Days after Chandrayaan-3’s successful moon landing, the Vikram Lander has made a touchdown on the lunar surface again, the Indian space agency said today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Vikram Lander has exceeded Chandrayaan-3 mission objectives and successfully completed a “hop experiment”,” said the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).<\/p>\n

“On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 – 40 cm away,” ISRO said.<\/p>\n

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Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
🇮🇳Vikram soft-landed on 🌖, again!<\/p>\n

Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives. It successfully underwent a hop experiment.<\/p>\n

On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 \u2013 40 cm away.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/T63t3MVUvI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ISRO (@isro) September 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ISRO said this achievement “kickstart enthuses future sample return and human missions.”\u00a0The vertical take-off and landing on the Moon shows how robust the Vikram Lander is.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Pragyan rover was “set into Sleep mode” but with batteries charged and receiver on.<\/p>\n

“Hoping for a successful awakening for another set of assignments. Else, it will forever stay there as India’s lunar ambassador,” the space agency said.<\/p>\n

India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander last month.<\/p>\n

Chandrayaan-3’s soft, textbook touchdown after a failed attempt in 2019 has sparked widespread jubilation in the country.\u00a0The landing, which came just days after a Russian lander crashed in the same region, is being seen as India’s greatest scientific feat.<\/p>\n

The country has been steadily matching the achievements of other space programmes at a fraction of their cost. ISRO’s first Sun mission, Aditya-L1, was launched successfully last week. The key objectives of the mission are understanding the coronal heating and solar wind acceleration.<\/p>\n

ISRO is slated to launch a three-day crewed mission into Earth’s orbit by next year. It also plans a joint mission with Japan to send another probe to the Moon by 2025 and an orbital mission to Venus within the next two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n