vampyrbladez
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SpaceX took 11 attempts to perfect soft landing technology. Chinks got their tech from Russia ; US and Russia developed it through trial and error like SpaceX.While I agree with fast tracking chandryaan3. I don't think GAGAN YAN has any connection to it.
Soft landing on moon is very difficult with vaccum , wobbly gravity and lack of proper visual , understanding of topography.
While recovering crew in a splash in bay of Bengal is rather easy because gravity is known as fixed on earth , winds slow down the craft. And it splashes in water.
We only failed in vertical soft landing at precise location . If we used previous methods of bounced landing like USA did many time we'd be successful just the location won't be precise because the Lander will bounce multiple times.
I agree with the Bay of Bengal part as well. Thus is probably the route we will take. However before all this Sun/Venus missions we need to perfect this soft lander technology.
Hence a launch in 2021-2022 sounds good as now we have a technical liaison with Russian space agency and ESA. Also launching test of module as re-entry payload could also give us the necessary data.