The Moon’s south pole is in India’s sights as it prepares to launch a robotic lander and explorer.
India is hoping its Moon lander, Vikram, will unfold to discharge a rover. This is the second attempt at a successful soft landing.India is preparing to launch a spacecraft carrying a lander to the Moon on 14 July. If the mission is successful, India will become only the fourth country ever to make a controlled lunar landing, after the United States, the former Soviet Union and China.
“The south pole region has very different geology from the region around the [US] Apollo missions, so Chandrayaan-3 will provide a close-up view of an entirely new region of the Moon,” says planetary geochemist Marc Norman at the Australian National University in Canberra. ISRO has not publicly released a report analysing the failure of Chandrayaan-2. But, a retired ISRO engineer has said that the cause was insufficient ‘throttling’ — gradual reduction in speed — by the engines, a crucial requirement during lunar descent.The propulsion module will serve as a communications relay satellite, and the orbiter from Chandrayaan-2 will be used as a backup relay.
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