A new “Find My Device” on the Moon?… Well, sort of.

For the first time at the Moon, a laser beam was transmitted and reflected between a NASA orbiting spacecraft and an Oreo-sized device on ISRO’s Moon lander, Vikram, on the lunar surface: go.nasa.gov/3u3fawC

In the light of recent events, I feel this needs to be shared again.

The king Raja Sawai Jai Singh II who laid out the first map of the #RamJanmbhoomi in Ayodhya was the same astronomer that went on to build four Jantar Mantars across Northern India.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Singh…

What's floating in space, 8 years old, and loves to see things go boom? It's CZTI on ISRO AstroSat ! Just crossed the milestone of detecting 600 gamma ray bursts, 'mini big bangs' all across the universe. Work currently led by Gaurav Waratkar +IIT Bombay students + Inter-University Centre for Astronomy&Astrophysics

Prime Minister reviews readiness of Gaganyaan Mission

Indian Space Station to be set up by 2035

India to send Man to Moon by 2040

India to undertake missions to Venus and Mars

pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…

PMO India

Food for the soul - on a new quest to discover ancient Indian astronomical secrets, straight from the horse's mouth.

Another day, another reminder that any 'update' you see floating around here about Chandrayaan-3's lunar night survival carries just about as much believability...🤏🏼

Wait for the official confirmation from ISRO! (instead of hearing and amplifying word of mouth)

.NASA's LRO spacecraft recently imaged the Chandrayaan-3 lander on the Moon’s surface.

The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) Chandrayaan-3 touched down on Aug. 23, 2023, about 600 kilometers from the Moon’s South Pole.

MORE >> go.nasa.gov/3LaHp1v

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
The rover was rotated in search of a safe route. The rotation was captured by a Lander Imager Camera.

It feels as though a child is playfully frolicking in the yards of Chandamama, while the mother watches affectionately.
Isn't it?🙂

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:

Smile, please📸!

Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning.

The 'image of the mission' was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam).

NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 Mission are developed by the Laboratory for

... ... and here is how the Chandrayaan-3 Rover ramped down from the Lander to the Lunar surface.

Here's a slightly old animation I made earlier to show how #Chandrayaan3 was inserted into the lunar orbit, shortly after it entered Moon's sphere of influence.

Unlike Chandrayaan-2, this time the probe was captured from below the Moon. Also, notice the size of orbits wrt Moon.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Updates:

The communication link is established between the Ch-3 Lander and MOX-ISTRAC, Bengaluru.

Here are the images from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera taken during the descent.

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3