India prepares its third lunar mission after the failure of Chandrayaan-2

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India prepares its third mission to the unexplored south pole of the Moon months after the failure of the Chandrayaan-2 , with which it lost contact during the moon landing, the Indian space agency reported.

"The Government approved the project for Chandrayaan-3 . This will be based on the project developed for Chandrayaan-2 . The development of the plan began without any setback, " the head of the Space Research Organization reported in a press conference from India (ISRO), Kailasavadivoo Sivan.

The new project that is scheduled to be launched in 2021 will also have a landing module, and an explorer but, unlike its predecessor, it will lack an orbiter, he explained.

Chandrayaan-2 left Earth on July 22 and was successfully put into orbit, although the space agency lost contact with the lunar probe at dawn on September 6, about twenty minutes after the start of the moon landing maneuver.

According to Sivan, the failure was caused by technical problems in reducing the speed of landing.

Part of the team continues to receive information because, "although we were unable to successfully land, the orbiter continues to function" and collected data remotely, explained the head of the ISRO.

If it had succeeded, Chandrayaan-2 would have made India the fourth member country of the club of nations that touched the Moon, a feat previously accomplished by Russia, the United States and China , and the first to land on the south pole of the satelite.

With this mission, Indian scientists hoped to discover more about the mineral composition of the Moon and the presence of water.

The first mission to the moon was the Chandrayaan-1 , placed in the lunar orbit in November 2008, without landing.

The first manned trip

Plans to put a spacecraft with three astronauts into orbit for their first manned mission continue as planned, Sivan said today, who revealed that four candidates have already been selected for training.

According to the head of the ISRO, astronaut training for the Gaganyaan mission will begin in the third week of this month in Russia.

When the project was announced in mid-2018, the ISRO explained that the astronauts will travel in a 100% Indian-made ship divided into two modules, one for the crew and one that will provide services to it.

The ship will be sent about 400 kilometers from Earth , a trip that will last for about 16 minutes, while the return, after staying between five and seven days in Earth's orbit, will be somewhat longer, about 36 minutes.

In the descent, when the ship is about 120 kilometers from Earth, the service module will be disposed of, so that only the part where the crew is located will land in the Arabian Sea.

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