Chandrayaan-3 lander's terrifying last phase: Check the step-by-step process
Photo Credit: ISRO Today, India created history when the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully touched down on the Moon. However, the last 15 minutes were nothing short of terror for the ISRO scientists.
Photo Credit: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14th July and landed successfully on the South Pole of the Moon and became the first country to do so in this lunar region.
Photo Credit: ISRO The most scary part of the whole operation was the last one. Check out the step-by-step last phase of operations i.e. Power descent phase of the Chandrayaan-3 lander.
Photo Credit: ISRO/Twitter The Power Descent phase included 4 different phases that is Rough Breaking Phase, Altitude Hold Phase, Fine Breaking Phase, and the Local Navigation Phase.
Photo Credit: ISRO The Power Descent Phase began around 5:44 p.m. IST. ISRO revealed that there will be no human intervention in the last 15 minutes of the whole operation.
Photo Credit: Pixabay The Rough Breaking Phase started at 5:47 pm IST. During this phase, the velocity of the Lander Module was brought down from 1680 m/s to 358m/s. The altitude of the module went from 30km to 7.4km to the surface of the Moon.
Photo Credit: ISRO At 5:50 P.m. IST, the Autonomous Landing Sequence took over the landing and thereafter, controlled the landing process on its own.
Photo Credit: ISRO When the Lander Module reached a height of 7.5 kilometers from the lunar surface, the Rough Breaking Phase ended and after that, a 10-second period of Altitude Hold Phase started where the propulsion was adjusted to fix the orientation of the Lander.
Photo Credit: NASA At 5:59 p.m. IST Vertical Descent Phase also called local navigation phase started which was the final phase of the landing.
Photo Credit: ISRO At 6:04 p.m. IST, Chandrayaan-3 landed on the South Pole of the Moon and created history.
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