Chandrayaan-3 successfully lands on Moon’s south pole

Chandrayaan-3 successfully lands on Moon’s south pole

Chandrayaan-3 live updates: The ISRO mission made history as the first one to land on the lunar south pole. Only three other countries have conducted a lunar soft-landing in history.

ISRO started the automatic landing sequence at 5.44 PM IST. The Vikram lander is now using its onboard computers and logic to try to make a soft landing on the Moon. While mission controllers at ISTRAC will monitor it closely, the onboard systems of the lander will be doing all the heavy lifting.

The Chandrayaan-3 mission is the follow-up to the Chandrayaan-2 mission of 2019, when the Vikram lander crashed into the lunar surface. The primary objective of the mission is simple—showcase the space agency’s capability to complete a soft-landing on the Moon. With the mission, India has joined a small and exclusive club of countries that have managed to soft land on the Moon. So far, the club has three members—the United States, the Soviet Union and China.

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