{"id":344681,"date":"2023-07-14T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=344681"},"modified":"2023-07-14T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:51:49","slug":"lvm3-m4-rocket-carrying-chandrayaan-3-lifts-off-from-sriharikota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lvm3-m4-rocket-carrying-chandrayaan-3-lifts-off-from-sriharikota\/","title":{"rendered":"LVM3-M4 rocket carrying Chandrayaan-3 lifts off from Sriharikota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its third lunar mission–Chandrayaan 3 on-board the heavylift LVM3-M4 rocket here on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the 25.30 hour countdown, the LVM3-M4 rocket, the largest and heaviest in its class and dubbed as ‘Fat Boy’ lifted off majestically at a prefixed time at 2.35 pm from the second launch pad, discharging thick plumes of smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of spectators who had converged to witness the historic launch cheered the rocket as it made its ascent into the skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Chandrayaan-3 mission, scientists are aiming at mastering soft-landing on the lunar surface, a challenging technical aspect which is planned for late August. A successful mission would make India only the fourth country to achieve the rare feat after the United States, China and the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chandrayaan 3 follows the Chandrayaan 2 mission which did not achieve the desired soft landing on the surface of the moon in 2019, disappointing the scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to ISRO officials, around 16 minutes after lift-off, the propulsion module will separate from the rocket and would orbit the earth for about 5-6 times in an elliptical cycle with 170 km closest and 36,500 km farthest from earth moving towards the lunar orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The propulsion module along with the lander, after gaining speed would proceed for an over a month long journey towards reaching the orbit of the moon until it goes 100 km above the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After reaching the desired altitude, the lander module would begin its descent for a soft landing on the south pole region of the moon and this action is expected to take place on August 23 or 24, scientists at ISRO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its third lunar mission–Chandrayaan 3 on-board the heavylift LVM3-M4 rocket here on Friday. At the end of the 25.30 hour countdown, the LVM3-M4 rocket, the largest and heaviest in its class and dubbed as ‘Fat Boy’ lifted off majestically at a prefixed time at 2.35 pm from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":344682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16997,16996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344684,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344681\/revisions\/344684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/344682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}