Bengaluru, November 14
After an unsuccessful bid two months ago, India may attempt another soft landing on the Moon by next year-end, probably in November, sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday.
The organisation had constituted a high-level committee, headed by S Somanath, Director of Thiruvanathapuram-based Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, the lead centre responsible for all launch vehicle programmes of ISRO, to prepare a report on the proposed Chandrayaan-3.
“The report is awaited. The committee has been given guidelines to prepare the mission before the end of next year,” said a senior ISRO official. “There is a good launch window in November,” he said.
“Rover, lander and landing operations will get more focus this time and whatever deficiencies there were in the Chandrayaan-2 mission will be corrected,” sources in ISRO said.
On September 7, ISRO attempted a soft landing of Chandrayaan-2’s ‘Vikram’ on the lunar south pole, before losing communication with the lander. A national-level committee has analysed the cause of communication loss with the lander. — PTI
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