Chandrayaan 3 project director "P Veeramuthuvel" also shared the stage and thanked all the stakeholders who made the mission a success. “Our journey to the moon has begun now for the most-awaited soft-landing,” said Veeramuthuvel. The spacecraft will be closely monitored from Bengaluru.
Chandrayaan 3 was launched on a GSLV Mark 3 (LVM3) heavy lift launch vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
The propulsion module will take the Vikram lander and the Pragyaan rover into a 100 km circular polar lunar orbit before separating in August.
Vikram lander will first touchdown with Pragyaan rover in the South polar region of the Moon, around August-end. Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram lander and Pragyaan rover are designed to operate for one lunar daylight period, equivalent to 14 Earth days.