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ISRO gears for challenging Chandrayaan-3 Translunar Injection on Aug 1
CHENNAI [Maha Media]: Hours after the successful commercial launch of PSLV-C56 that injected seven Singapore satellites in the orbit that was followed by the technology demonstrator of controlled lowering the orbit of the fourth stage engine of PSLV to have a lower life span spent in space on Sunday, the ISRO scientists are working on a more challenging task--slinging the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into the TransLunar Injection (TLI) orbit on the midnight of August 1.
After the successful PSLV mission, the scientists are back in action to further raise the orbit of India's third Lunar Mission, to explore the so far unexplored Lunar south pole that would propel India joint a select group of space faring nations to achieve this historic. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which was launched from the Second Launch Pad from Sriharikota on July 14, has undergone five orbit raising manouvers thus far to take it further closer to the moon. And the August 1 operation is more crucial to ensure that the spacecraft enters the Lunar Orbit.
ISRO had successfully performed the fifth Orbit raising maneuver on July 25 and the spacecraft attained an orbit of 127609 km x 236 km and the next firing, the TLI is planned for August 1 between 12 midnight and 1 a.m.
"The next firing, the TransLunar Injection (TLI), is planned for August 1, 2023, between 12 midnight and 1 am IST", ISRO said. It will be a more challenging task and the scientists at the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru are burning the midnight oil to make the TLI manouver success. From there, it would take another 22 days for the spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Lunar surface, that would catapult India join USA, the then Soviet Union and China to have achieved this milestone.
