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https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-plans-to-launch-chandrayaan-3-by-first-half-of-2021-isro-chairman-120030401582_1.html
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-plans-to-launch-chandrayaan-3-by-first-half-of-2021-isro-chairman-120030401582_1.html
Isro will attempt to launch in the same area, and would have a lander, rover and propulsion module like its predecessor
The
Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is planning to launch Chandrayaan–3
during the first half of 2021. The previous one crash landed on Moon’s surface
in September 2019.
The mission has been configured based on the lessons learnt from
Chadrayaan-2. Earlier, Isro Chairman K Sivan had said Chandrayaan-3 would have a similar
configuration to the Chandrayaan-2, which he described as the most complex
mission attempted by Isro.
The revised configuration takes care of the robustness in design and capacity
enhancement for flexibility. Isro had aimed to land on the south pole of
Moon — on a spot that no other landing
craft had reached before.
