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The ISRO Chandrayaan-3 is being rolled out to the launch pad.

https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3_New.html

"Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface. It consists of Lander and Rover configuration. It will be launched by LVM3 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The propulsion module will carry the lander and rover configuration till 100 km lunar orbit. The propulsion module has Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload to study the spectral and Polari metric measurements of Earth from the lunar orbit."
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Hope the mission is a success. Space is getting to be less of a ESA/NASA/Russian monopoly
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thx for the link .
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Thanks, Graeme!
Best of luck for a successful mission!

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Hopefully it will be more successful than the Chandrayaan-2 mission.
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Hi Graeme. I agree with Michael. It is great to see more countries gearing up space and solar system exploration. Thanks for finding and sharing this launch news link with us on here Graeme and I hope that this mission is a success.
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Here's where we are after a successful launch:

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From CNN:
"India’s Chandrayaan-3 enters lunar orbit in step closer to moon rover soft landing"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/india/in ... index.html

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From SpaceNews.com:
"India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander arrives in lunar orbit"

https://spacenews.com/indias-chandrayaa ... nar-orbit/

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From the BBC:
"Historic India Moon mission sends new photos of lunar surface"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66425524

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Great news!!

Hope things continue to go well!
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Seems like the moon was somewhat ignored for years and now its the happening place to be.
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From Ars Technica:
“After Russia’s failure, India is next in line to attempt a Moon landing”

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/a ... n-landing/

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They have done slow and steady all the way there! So good luck to India for tomorrow!

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Live broadcast:

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Now at 30km from the surface!
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Lander
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Vertical decent:

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-a ... a-66576580
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