I AM SO EXCITED ONCE PRAGYAN STARTS SENDING DATA AND IMAGES LIKE AAHAHAHAHAHHAHSJDNDNSKKSKA

India has landed on the Moon!!! The landing is part of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission.

"'We have achieved soft landing on the moon,'" said ISRO Chairman Shri Somanath. 'Yes, on the moon!'"

"[Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi] then addressed the ISRO team, speaking in Hindi but adding in English, 'India is now on the moon!'

'The success belongs to all of humanity,' he said. 'And it will help moon missions by other countries in the future. I'm confident that all countries in the world ... can all aspire for the moon and beyond. ... The sky is not the limit!'"

The remote operated lander named Vikram touched down in the south pole region at 6:02pm IST on August 23, 2023. Vikram carried a small but mighty companion, the lunar rover Pragyan (Sanskrit, "wisdom").

Vikram is named after Vikram Sarabhai, PhD, physicist, astronomer, and a major figure in the development of India's space and nuclear programs. Sarabhai served as the first chairman of the ISRO, as well as the driving force behind the organization's creation. Recognizing the need for more coordinated space research in India, Sarabhai urged the Indian government to create INCOSPAR - the committee that eventually formed the ISRO in 1969.

Chandrayaan-3: ISRO delays reviving Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover on Moon

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had plans to wake up the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover on the moon, but they had to push it to Saturday. The Director of the Space Applications Centre, Nilesh Desai, explained that they initially wanted to activate the rover and lander on September 22, but now they are going to do it on September 23 due to some reasons. “ISRO’s plan was to attempt…

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Okay quick Chandrayaan 3 brainrot post again: can we talk about Pragyan please? Pragyan is literally the most adorable thing, that one lil robot on wheels can do so much! Here are some fun facts!

Pragyan has a payload called the APXS or the Alpha Particle X Ray spectrometer. It literally irradiates moon rocks and gets back the composition of what it contains! (Massive oversimplification) That little thing can do so much and it only weighs 26 kgs!

It has a shelf life of 1 lunar day or 14 earth days. And it travels at 1cm/s speed. If you're looking at the Moon's dark side right now, provided it is nighttime, you'll likely be looking at this lil thing taking baby steps and exploring the moon's surface all on its own!

They've fitted the rover with so many solar panels so there's no power disturbance. The reason for a short shelf life has to do a lot with how much solar energy it gets (again massive oversimplification) and there are often constraints to work with. There's been talks on improving the shelf life and recommendations but can I just take a moment to appreciate ISRO for being able to carry out so many precise experiments in this lil guy in a short span of 2 weeks?

Pragyan also has something called Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy or LIBS which literally breaks down surface materials with lasers, measures the fucking plasma vapours AND REPORTS IT BACK TO SRIHARIKOTA/BANGALORE MISSION CONTROL.

It's total power generation is about 50 watts, has six wheels, has a camera and has a dimension of 3 feet x 2.5 feet x 2.8 feet.

The Pragyan wheels have this stamp of ISRO's logo and the Ashoka emblem on the lunar surface, thus cementing it on the soil forever!!

I'm not sure if Pragyan 2 will visit the crash site of CY-2 (Vikram 1 and Pragyan 1 ended up crash-landing about 600km from the South Pole) and I don't know if it is within the realm of possibility, since Pragyan 2 has a maximum range of 500m within the place where they're interested in conducting the in-situ science experiments, but it would have been a real homecoming moment. To think that it took ISRO 3 and a half years (2 shaved off due to the pandemic) to come up with a design solution to do the unthinkable and make some powerful discoveries is just..

I need a moment lol. I've already cried like six times, I do not want this to be the seventh.

And here are some images!

Chandrayaan-3: India's Historic Soft Landing on the Moon

Introduction On August 23, 2023, India made history by successfully landing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the Moon’s South Pole. This was India’s third lunar mission, and its first soft landing since Chandrayaan-2 in 2019. The successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 is a major achievement for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and a significant step forward for India’s space…

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Chandrayaan-3 अपडेट: ISRO ने घोषणा की, प्रज्ञान रोवर अब 'नींद मोड' में है, और 22 सितंबर को फिर सक्रिय हो सकता है!

Image Credit: ISRO Chandrayaan-3: चंद्रमा पर Pragyan रोवर ‘नींद मोड’ में, 22 सितंबर को फिर सक्रिय हो सकता है। ISRO के नवाचार से जुड़ें! भारतीय अंतरिक्ष और अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) ने घोषणा की है कि 22 सितंबर 2023 को, विक्रम लैंडर के प्रज्ञान रोवर मॉड्यूल सुनी हवाओं में ‘नींद मोड’ में प्रवेश करेगा। रोवर ने अपने कार्यों को पूरा किया है और अब सुरक्षित रूप से पार्क किया गया है, साथ ही APXS और LIBS…

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ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 Confirms Presence of Sulfur and Other Elements on Lunar South Pole

India recently achieved a space exploration milestone by becoming the first nation to land a rover on the Moon’s mysterious south pole. The ambitious Chandrayaan-3 mission’s rover Pragyan has begun using its onboard instruments to study this unexplored frontier up close. Early results reveal the rover’s groundbreaking capabilities to analyze lunar soil composition, with potential implications for…

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Chandrayaan 3 Mission चंद्रमा को छूते ही लगे भारत मां की जय के नारे ….

भारत ने चांद की सतह पर अपना कदम रख दिया है। चंद्रयान 3 (Chandrayaan 3) की सफलता पर हर भारतीय का सीना गर्व से चौड़ा हो गया है। पूरा देश जश्न में डूबा हुआ है। चंद्रयान 3 (Chandrayaan 3) के लैंडर विक्रम (Vikram Lander) ने जैसे ही चांद की सतह पर सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग की हर कोई खुशी से झूम उठा, कहीं ढोल नगाड़े बजने लगे तो कई लोग नाचने गाने लगे। हर किसी ने अपनी तरीके से इस सफलता का जश्न मनाया। आइए आपको सुनवाते है चंद्रयान तीन की सफलता पर लोग क्या बोले।

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission is aiming for a landing spot on the lunar south pole, hoping to make history as the nation’s first successful touchdown on the cratered surface. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled to land on the Moon on Wednesday at 8:34 a.m. ET (6:04 p.m. local time in India). The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will provide a…

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PRAGYAN TAKING ITS BABY STEPS TO THE MOON<3

El rover de India ya está explorando el Polo Sur de la Luna

El rover de India ya está explorando el Polo Sur de la Luna

India se encuentra en los titulares, y es que ayer hizo historia al convertirse en el primer país…

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As an Indian and as someone who's been following space tech for a long time, it is just incredibly satisfying to see a space agency so heavily undermined, do the unthinkable and prove everyone wrong. It also brings me incredible deja vu. Four years ago, I remember skipping school, skipping everything to watch the launch and the landing and I remember feeling so hopeless. The scepticism they faced after CY-2 and how they bounced back is literally its own story. I cannot imagine the downtrodden engineers after their project - the hours of sleep they'd lost, when they learned the lander crash landed.

The engineers who worked on the project assembly, who worked so much on the design and the development have literally the strongest minds in this entire planet. The interns, the electrical guys, the lab guys in their white protective kits, the mission control team just holding on for their dear lives hoping things work out, never letting their mind wander into the "what if" is just this incredible lesson in human resilience and why we do space. Why in spite of space being the most difficult thing in the whole entire universe, we still do it over and over again.

This is just my two cents ahaha. I'm just coherent enough to type this down, because yes I have been crying tears of happiness, emotionally attached to a robot on wheels; as an engineering kiddo, for the past day and a half.

Godspeed Chand-3. You might just have fourteen days to perform your scientific experiments, but you've explored more than what anyone would ever do in their entire lifetimes.

Thursday, August 24.

Chandrayaan-3.

India has become the first country to land at the lunar south pole, and we consider this very cool space news. Among the very coolest of space news, perhaps. And truth be told it is truly *monumental*. While many are discussing the usual geopolitical gossip that seemingly goes in tandem with such cool space news, the significance of the landing not for any one nation, but potentially for the human race, is huge. So today, to the nation of India, its brilliant scientists at Isro, and all those who worked towards #chandrayaan3, we salute your fine, very cool space work.

One of the mission's principal aims will be to search for water-based ice that, scientists believe, could support future human habitation on the Moon. However, we would ask you to spare a thought at this time for the plucky little rover, who will wizz (albeit slowly) around the Moon's south pole for one lunar day (around 14 Earth days.) Named Pragyan, which means “wisdom” in Sanskrit, the rover will analyze the elemental composition of the Moon’s surface, and assess the composition of elements like magnesium and aluminium in the lunar soil around the landing site. 

But we can't help but think of this cute little rover, its six wheels leaving imprints of Isro and India’s national emblem on the lunar surface, up there frightened, away from home, all alone :( 

Indian rover begins to explore moon – DW – 08/24/2023

India's lunar rover began exploring the moon's surface on Thursday as part of the country's Chandrayaan-3 mission.

New Delhi's Vikram lander reached the moon on Wednesday, making India the first country to land a craft on the lunar south pole.

The six-wheeled, solar-powered Pragyan rover will explore the largely unmapped area of the moon and transmit images and scientific data over a period of two weeks. It will examine the mineral composition of the moon's surface.

Cahndrayaan-3 had to orbit the Earth several times to gain speed and took a month to reach the moon.

"Rover ramped down the lander and India took a walk on the moon!" the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.  ...

ISRO revealed this picture of the Vikram Lander taken by the Pragyan Rover.

Pragyan rover (2023) by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Chandrayaan-3 is India’s third lunar mission, and the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon. The Vikram lander touched down on the lunar surface on 23rd August 2023. Inside the lander is the six-wheeled Pragyan rover, which is planned roam the lunar surface, exploring permanently shadowed craters that may hold frozen water. Pragyan, meaning 'wisdom' in Sanskrit, is painted in the colours of the Tiranga, the national flag of India. It drives at a speed of one centimetre per second, and is planned to cover a total distance of half a kilometre during its 14 earth day, or 1 lunar day, mission. Instruments include a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) that fires laser pulses at various targets to analyse the resulting plasma, and an Alpha Particle Induced X-ray Spectroscope (APIXS). The photos show the Pragyan rover successfully disembarking from the Vikram lander onto the lunar surface.