India literally burst into a small club of powers, possessing technologies for space exploration. Moreover, New Delhi did not waste time on trifles and immediately began to implement one of the most difficult projects in the history of the entire world astronautics., launching the first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 year.
The second mission to send Chandrayaan 2 to the Moon failed while attempting a soft landing during a critical turn maneuver..
Indian automatic space station "Chandrayan-3" with an orbiter, lander and lunar rover was launched into space 14 July and entered lunar orbit 5 August, after which the device began to fly over the Earth's satellite in order to reduce the distance before landing to one hundred kilometers. Actually, the booster will remain in orbit, acting as a signal relay satellite, Vikram descent module will be sent to the lunar surface.
The maneuver to separate it from the base platform was planned for 17 August, later the Indian Space Research Organization reported, that the descent may be delayed for 27 August. However, nothing unexpected, as in the case of the Russian apparatus "Luna-25", Did not happen. The descent module began landing on the moon on a given date.
Today, the Indian automatic station "Chandrayan-3" transmitted footage of filming the surface of the moon, taken by one of the cameras on the Vikram lander. Already known, that the landing platform of the Chandrayaan-3 lunar station successfully made a soft landing, for the first time in the history of studying a satellite of the Earth, landing on its South Pole. The Indian Space Agency broadcast was followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 7,8 million people.
Expected, that the payload of the lunar rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission will provide breakthrough knowledge about the elemental composition of the lunar surface. The lunar rover is equipped with an X-ray alpha-particle spectrometer and a laser-guided spectroscope. Detectors are also installed on the Vikram descent module..
