Chandrayan 3 ( India's third mission to moon)
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Toys Hacks: India has now finally announced it’s
third lunar mission. It’ll be the third attempt of India to achieve the soft
moon landing.Following the mission that was failed during the landing last
year.
The government of
India finally has approved the third third moon mission of India . the mission
will be named “Chandrayan 3” taken from the sanskrit means “ moon vehicle” _ will have a new propulsion module, moon lander
and rover, Sivan said in a news conference on Wednesday.
The
new mission’s equipment would cost around $35 million with it’s launcher
costing a further $51 million. Which will make India a cost effective space
power. India will become the fourth only country to make a soft landing on the
moon’s surface following the United States, Soviet Union and China. But the
first country to land on the south pole of the moon if successfull . India’s
first moon mission was in 2008, when it crashed with an impact into the moon in
a controlling landing. But achieving soft landing is far a greater technical
challenge for ISRO.
The
announcement on Wednesday comes the months only after India’s failed second
moon landing mission named “Chandrayan 2”, which had send out to collect
chemical samples and minerals from the moon’s surface.
The
mission launched on 22nd of July 2019 and entered the lunar orbit in
August but it lost communication with India’s space agency while slowly made
its way towards the moon’s surface in September.
“The
Chadrayan 2 mission’s lander Vikram had a very hard landing and the location is
still unknown”. NASA said.
Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, later consoled the team of scientists who worked
hard for the chandrayan 2 mission in the televised address.
“
With great satisfaction and efforts we will look back at the journey,” Modi
said. “ From today’s learnings we become stronger and better. It’s new dawn and will be a brighter tomorrow
soon”.
The
lunar landing attempts shows the India’s great space ambitions. The country
wants to put Indian astronaut by 2022 and become a major space player with
cost effection.
“The
Indian space agency is doing a great progress towards it’s first manned mission in
space, and already have choosed four astronauts for further training,” Sivan
said on Wednesday.
In
2014 when the global community were criticising India for the interplanetary
mission, India became the first country in the world to reach the mars in it’s
first attempt. This mission has achieved on a reletively low budget costs just
a $74 million_ which is less than the $100 milion spent on making the Hollywood
space thriller “Gravity”.
We hope for the best luck for Indian SpaceResearch Organisation ( ISRO) this time.
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