Chandrayan 3
CHANDRAYAAN-3
INDIA'S LUNAR TRIUMPH
Landing on the South Pole
A historic mission by ISRO that successfully landed the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover near the lunar south pole on August 23, 2023.
"National Space Day" in India.
Most cost-effective lunar mission.
Lander Sync
Touchdown Mapping. Monitoring the Vikram descent buffer to track the historic landing at 69.37°S.
- 🌕 Target: Lunar South Pole Sync.
- 📉 Velocity: Soft-Landing Protocol.
- 🛡️ Legs: Impact-Absorption Buffer.
Rover Sync
Mobility Mapping. Monitoring the Pragyan wheel buffer to track regolith chemical composition.
- 🚜 Drive: Six-Wheel Kinetic Sync.
- 🔦 Laser: LIBS Element Protocol.
- 👣 Imprint: ISRO-Logo Buffer.
Thermal Sync
Regolith Mapping. Monitoring the ChaSTE probe buffer to track lunar surface temperature gradients.
- 🌡️ Probe: Subsurface Heat Sync.
- ❄️ Cryo: Ice-Volatility Protocol.
- 📉 Data: -10cm Depth Buffer.
Element Sync
Atomic Mapping. Monitoring the APXS spectrometer buffer to track Sulfur (S) and metal presence.
- 🟡 Detection: Sulfur Signature Sync.
- 🧬 Alpha: Particle-X Protocol.
- ⚛️ Isotope: Chemical-Grid Buffer.
Habit Sync
Spectro-Polarimetry Mapping. Monitoring the SHAPE instrument buffer to track Earth-like exoplanet signatures.
- 🌍 Earth: Habitable-Signature Sync.
- 📡 Orbiter: Relay-Communication Protocol.
- ♾️ Orbit: Lunar-Gateway Buffer.
Paper
CHANDRAYAAN-3 SCAN 🇮🇳
Objective: 10-Item Lunar South Pole Calibration.
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VIKRAM LANDER
Named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India's space program. It successfully executed a precision descent from lunar orbit to the surface.
LANDER DATAPRAGYAN ROVER
A six-wheeled robotic vehicle that deployed from the lander to study lunar soil. It confirmed the presence of **Sulphur** on the moon's surface.
ROVER SPECSPROPULSION MODULE
The module that carried the lander to 100km lunar orbit. It also hosted the **SHAPE** instrument to study Earth's habitability from a lunar distance.
MISSION LOG