Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon lander.
Image credit: ISRO

India’s ambitious Moon exploration spacecraft, the Chandrayaan-3, is now en route to its lunar target. The lander is to unleash a rover, both stuffed with scientific instruments to inspect the lunar surface in the southern lunar hemisphere.

“Next stop: the Moon,” declared an Internet posting from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). All appears on track for the Chandrayaan-3 to swing into lunar orbit on August 5.

NASA-supplied laser retroreflector array is mounted atop India’s lunar lander. Device can help precisely pinpoint the whereabouts of a Moon lander.
Image credit ISRO/NASA

India’s lander will then head for a touchdown on August 23 within the southern region of the Moon’s near side, soft landing about 13 miles (20 kilometers) west of the Manzinus U crater rim.

Go to my new Multiverse Media SpaceRef story – “India’s Moon Shot Adds to Country’s Growing Space Endeavors” – at:

https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/indias-moon-shot-countrys-growing-space-endeavors/