{"id":305,"date":"2023-08-04T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:39:26","slug":"chandrayaan-3-close-to-moons-surface-chandrayaan-3-to-attempt-lunar-orbit-capturing-on-august-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/04\/chandrayaan-3-close-to-moons-surface-chandrayaan-3-to-attempt-lunar-orbit-capturing-on-august-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3 close to Moon&#8217;s surface; Chandrayaan-3 to attempt lunar orbit capturing on August 5&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written &amp; Edited By : Aditi Mishra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 August 2023 ( New Delhi) : The spacecraft has covered about two-thirds of the distance to the moon and the LOI has been fixed on August 5 around 7 pm,&#8221; ISRO said on Friday.Chandrayaan-3 has covered about two-thirds of the distance. That is, about 66% of the moon&#8217;s journey has been completed by the spacecraft. Now it will enter the Moon&#8217;s orbit on August 5 at around 7 pm. ISRO gave this information on Friday. And on August 23, the vehicle will land on the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42-1.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandrayaan-3&#8217;s launch on July 14 will complete 22 days on Saturday and 17 crucial days are left before ISRO attempts to soft-land Vikram (lander). Several scientists the space agency TOI spoke to in the past month are confident of a successful LOI, given that it has been achieved twice earlier in 2019 (Chandrayaan-2) and 2008 (Chandrayaan-1) .According to Union Minister Jitendra Singh: \u201cThe key to successful soft-landing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" width=\"838\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42.jpeg 730w, https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-04-at-19.03.42-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hypothesis for future landing missions and planetary exploration. It has been used as a precursor to other technological advances. However, the success of this mission depended on a critical step \u2013 entry into lunar orbit, a carefully planned maneuver that decelerated the spacecraft, allowing the Moon&#8217;s gravitational field to pull it into a stable lunar orbit, gets permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written &amp; Edited By : Aditi Mishra 4 August 2023 ( New Delhi) : The spacecraft has covered about two-thirds of the distance to the moon and the LOI has been fixed on August 5 around 7 pm,&#8221; ISRO said on Friday.Chandrayaan-3 has covered about two-thirds of the distance. 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