Chandrayaan-3 Launch Highlights: ISRO plans soft landing at 5:47 pm on August 23

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan congratulates ISRO over successful launch of Chandrayaan-3

HM Amit Shah congratulates ISRO for the successful launch of Chandrayaan-3

Jitendra Singh has revealed that the cost of the Chandrayaan-3 mission is around Rs 600 crores

School students watch the livestreaming of Chandrayaan-3 launch in Ahmedabad

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ISRO chief congratulates India as Chandrayaan-3 is now into the precise orbit around Earth

PM Modi applauds the successful launch of Chandrayaan-3

Health of Chandrayaan-3 is normal, ISRO announces

Chandrayaan-3 leaves a trail of smoke behind as it heads towards the moon

Chandrayaan-3 moving towards the intended spot in the orbit successfully, ISRO reports

All last-minute additions to the spacecraft are going smoothly, ISRO reports

Check out the live broadcast of the Chandrayaan-3 launch right here

Here are the mission objectives of Chandrayaan-3

1) To demonstrate Safe and Soft Landing on Lunar Surface
2) To demonstrate Rover roving on the moon and
3) To conduct in-situ scientific experiments.

Source: ISRO official website

UP Police and Delhi Police have wished the Chandrayaan-3 mission a great success

PM Modi lists the key achievements of the Chandrayaan-2 mission

"The key scientific outcomes from Chandrayaan 2 include the first ever global map for lunar sodium, enhancing knowledge on crater size distribution, unambiguous detection of lunar surface water ice with IIRS instrument and more. This Mission has featured in almost 50 publications," said the Prime Minister in a tweet.

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PM Modi says July 14, 2023 will be a date written in golden letters as far as India’s space sector is concerned

The Prime Minister also said in a tweet that this lunar mission will be carrying the hopes and dreams of the entire nations. The Prime Minister also lauded the achievement of India's first lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-1, which managed to confirm the presence of water molecules on the lunar surface. He also mentioned that the findings of Chandrayaan-1 were featured in more than 200 scientific publications.

Here are the details of the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission

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“Chandrayaan 3 being a very prestigious mission, Godrej has contributed to the hardware for the two engines, which are the second stage engines,” says Maneck Behramkamdin, Associate Vice President and Business Head at Godrej Aerospace. (PTI)

L&T supplies various components for Chandrayaan-3

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Thursday said the company has supplied various components for India's moon mission Chandrayaan-3.

In a regulatory filing, the company said components like "middle segment and nozzle bucket flange" were manufactured at its facility in Powai, while components like ground and flight umbilical plates were from the company's aerospace manufacturing facility at Coimbatore.

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Chandrayaan-3 to herald India’s quantum leap in global arena: Union minister Jitendra Singh

Chandrayaan-3 is going to herald the country's quantum leap in the global arena, Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh said in Hyderabad on Thursday.After the success story of the covid vaccine produced in India, the country has become an important global player to reckon with, the minister who is in charge of the Department of Space said, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 11th India Alliance Annual Conclave 2023. (PTI)

Chandrayaan-3 July 14 launch: What will it do

Once it descends on the moon next month, Chandrayaan-3 will seek to explore the lunar surface in great detail, examine the electrically-charged atoms in the lunar atmosphere and look for moon quakes to yield new insights into the origin and evolution of the Earth's only satellite.

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Renowned sand artist creates a 22-feet long sand art of Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3: Helmed by men unlike Chandrayaan-2

While the common purpose of India’s last two moon missions is the soft landing of the lander on lunar soil and the rover doing some research, there are differences in the specifications, payload experiments and others.

Chandrayaan-3: Countdown for India’s third moon mission progressing smoothly

The countdown for the July 14 afternoon launch of India’s third mission to moon-Chandrayaan-3- is progressing smoothly and the weather forecast is good for the rocket to fly as scheduled, said a senior official of the Indian space agency.