Chandrayaan-3 one step away from creating history, orbiting just 25 km above the lunar surface; looking for a landing spot

ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission is just one step away from writing history. Deboosting was done for the second time in Vikram, the lander of Chandrayaan-3 mission at 2 pm on Saturday night. After this deboosting, now the lander Vikram has reached closer to the lunar surface. At present, the lander Vikram is orbiting the Moon at a distance of 25 km from the nearest and 134 km from the farthest. During the deboosting, all four engines fitted in the lander Vikram have been used. Two engines were used in the first deboosting. The remaining two engines were used in the deboosting that took place on Saturday night. It is clear from this that the lander Vikram is completely fine.

2nd deboosting successful

Now only deorbit burn and landing are left in Chandrayaan-3 mission. The orbit in which the lander is at present is called Intermediate Transfer Orbit by ISRO. This is where the lander will wait for sunrise at its landing site and from this orbit the lander Vikram will land on the moon at 5.45 pm on August 23. The first deboosting of the lander was done on 18 August. At that time, the minimum distance of the lander from the moon was 113 km and the maximum distance was 157 km. While the second deboosting took place after the midnight of 20 August and now the lander's minimum distance from the Moon is 25 km and maximum distance is 134 km.

Vikram will find a place for landing. 

This process of lander deboosting was completed through the thruster fitted in the lander. In this process, the speed of the vehicle was reduced by firing thrusters in the direction opposite to the direction of travel. Each of the four legs of Chandrayaan's lander has thrusters of 800 Newton power. With the help of these, the speed of the lander module will be reduced and brought to the lower orbit. Now for the next three days, the lander Vikram will search for the place where it has to land. This time the lander Vikram is equipped with such equipment so that it will decide its own place of landing.

Now soft landing will be like this

Along with the second deboosting, the countdown for the landing of Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram has also started. Now preparations are on to create history in the world of space by slowing down the speed of the lander and landing it. Lander Vikram's landing process will start from a height of 25 km. For this, the speed of the lander has to be brought down from 1680 meters per second to 2 meters per second. It will have to start moving towards the moon at a 90 degree angle while orbiting. Lowering it with the help of thrusters, it will be safely landed on the surface.

Regarding Chandrayaan-3 mission, Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh tweeted, "Prepare for landing! Chandrayaan 3's final deboosting operation has successfully reduced the orbit of the lander module to 25 km x 134 km." The countdown will begin as soon as we reach the Moon."