'Bahubali Rocket', With 100% Success Rate, To Send Chandrayaan-3 To Moon
NDTV
Chandrayaan-3 is India's third mission to the moon and a satellite weighing 3921 kilograms will be lofted on its long, nearly four lakh kilometre, journey.
India's upgraded 'Bahubali' rocket is standing tall on the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota waiting to loft India's Chandrayaan-3 satellite towards the moon. It is an important experiment to master soft landing on a celestial body and if all goes well then the third lunar journey by India will begin on Friday (July 14) at 2.35 pm.
In Indian folklore, the moon is often referred to as 'chanda mama' - the loving uncle and in other cultures, Artemis is personification of the moon as a female goddess. Mission Chandrayaan is India's indigenous effort to access moon, Artemis Program is America's effort to go back to the moon in the 21st century. It may come as a surprise but India's Chandrayaan-1 in 2008, it seems, stirred the US from its almost 50 year lunar slumber, and the ambitious Artemis Program was born in 2018.
Chandrayaan-3 is India's third mission to the moon and a satellite weighing 3921 kilograms will be lofted on its long, nearly four lakh kilometre, journey. The upgraded 'Bahubali' rocket, now renamed Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LM-3), weighs 642 tons, which is equal to the combined weight of about 130 full grown Asian elephants. It is a humongous rocket standing 43.5 meters tall, which is more than half the height of the Qutub Minar which is 72 meters tall.
