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| India's Chandrayaan-3 probe has completed its mission on the Moon. (Source: AFP) |
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said that the Chandrayaan-3 probe has completed its assigned tasks on the Moon and has gone into standby mode. The Chandrayaan-3 probe was launched on July 4 and successfully landed on the lunar surface on August 23.
According to ISRO, the spacecraft has been moving within 100 meters of the lunar surface for the past 11 days. The agency's announcement on social network X on the evening of September 2 stated: "The probe has completed its assigned tasks. It is now safely parked and in standby mode. The Laser Emission Spectrometer (LIBS) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) have been turned off and their data have been transmitted to Earth."
The announcement also said that the battery system was fully charged and the solar panels were installed in a direction to receive light from the next sunrise, expected on September 22.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of the Moon, marking a historic step forward for the Indian space industry. After the US, China and the Soviet Union, India is the fourth country in the world to have landed a spacecraft on the Moon, but the first country to have a probe land on the south pole of the Moon.
After successfully exploring the Moon, at noon on September 2, India launched a rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 spacecraft to observe the Sun. The rocket was launched from the Indian Space Research Organization's launch site on Sriharikota Island and was broadcast live online.
The Aditya-L1 (Sun in Hindi) spacecraft will make a four-month, 1.5 million-kilometer journey to the Sun and study the solar wind. Indian scientists hope to learn more about the effects of solar radiation on the thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth.
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