India's Moon Exploration Program

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Picked link from a reddit post (The Virtual Telescope .eu)
Chandrayaan-3: a new image (25 July 2023)
We imaged the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft again, after its orbit was successfully raised for the 5th time. Here it is our image.

Chandrayaan-3: 25 July 2023.

The image above comes from a single 120-second exposure, remotely taken with the Celestron C14+Paramount ME+SBIG ST8-XME robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project in Manciano, Italy. The telescope tracked the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, so stars are leaving very long trails. The target was very low (less than 10 degrees) above the horizon, while weather was windy.

Chandrayaan-3 was at about 110.000 km from the telescopes while we were imaging it.

 

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Cdy-3, now out of geocentric regime, TLI insertion begins.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Chandrayaan-3 completes its orbits around the Earth and heads towards the Moon.


A successful perigee-firing performed at ISTRAC, ISRO has injected the spacecraft into the translunar orbit.


Next stop: the Moon


As it arrives at the moon, the Lunar-Orbit Insertion (LOI) is planned for Aug 5, 2023.

 

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Current track from n2yo before leaving geocentric orbit (since NORAD doesn't display tracking of objects which don't orbit earth).
NORAD ID: 57320
Int'l Code: 2023-098A
Perigee: 254.2 km
Apogee: 127,073.9 km
Inclination: 21.3 °
Period: 3,074.2 minutes
Semi major axis: 70035 km
RCS: Unknown
Launch date: July 14, 2023
Source: India (IND)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

 

[Cheran]

 

[Varoon2]

if the motive is to keep ISRO, and anyone else involved or emotionally invested, on their toes, it's understandable. Otherwise, can't see the need for this. 2 lunar and one planetary( Mars) captures have been done with great precision.

MSN

 

[Indx TechStyle]

if the motive is to keep ISRO, and anyone else involved or emotionally invested, on their toes, it's understandable. Otherwise, can't see the need for this. 2 lunar and one planetary( Mars) captures have been done with great precision.

MSN

Those hit jobs have been there for 2 days LOL, hoping for Chandrayaan-3 to be stranded in space like Japanese missions.

 

[AnantS]

 

[Master Chief]

So.. Chandrayaan is to get into lunar orbit at around 7 pm today.. Hmm.. fingers crossed..

 

[Vamsi]

So much juicy info about CY-3 & reasons why CY-2 failed

 

[TopWatcher]

Congrats moon grasp cy3

 

[Vamsi]

detailed reason behind CY-2 lander failure

 

[Vamsi]

detailed explanation about CY-2 & 3 landers

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[TopWatcher]

After propulsion module detach from lander. What will happened to propulsion module? Is there any experiment will done on it.

 

[Vamsi]

After propulsion module detach from lander. What will happened to propulsion module? Is there any experiment will done on it.

Yes, there's a payload called SHAPE onboard it

 

[Varoon2]

After propulsion module detach from lander. What will happened to propulsion module? Is there any experiment will done on it.

Yes, there is, it's acronym is SHAPE, it will last 3-6 months. Spectro polarimetry of habitable planet earth. Something related to detecting exotic planets.

 

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After propulsion module detach from lander. What will happened to propulsion module? Is there any experiment will done on it.

Yes, there's a payload called SHAPE onboard it

Yes, there is, it's acronym is SHAPE, it will last 3-6 months. Spectro polarimetry of habitable planet earth. Something related to detecting exotic planets.

It will detect earth's spectral pattern whose data will later be used on ExoWorlds (India's hubble telescope) to detect earth like planets around other stars.

 

[Cheran]

Orbit after yesterday

 

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Cdy-3 stamp

 

[The Juggernaut]

Cdy-3 stamp
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Sab log excited hai.

 

[Cheran]

https://www.isro.gov.in/media_isro/video/chandrayaan3/Ch3_Video_LOI.mp4

Video available of orbital insertion!!