The Pragyan rover has completed all of its planned tasks in one lunar day, or 14 earth days...
Digital Desk: India's first steps on the moon have been successful with the country creating history by becoming the first-ever nation to softly land a spacecraft on the South Pole of the moon.
On August 23, the Vikram lander, part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), successfully made a soft landing on the moon's surface. Since then, the Pragyan rover has completed all of its planned tasks in one lunar day, or 14 earth days.
In addition to constantly posting updates on the rover's tasks, ISRO also shared a video on Monday on X of the Vikram lander hopping on the moon!
Taking to X, ISRO mentioned that the lander went above and beyond its mission goals and wrote, "It successfully underwent a hop experiment. Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives. It successfully underwent a hop experiment. On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 to 40 cm away."
"Importance?: This 'kick-start' enthuses future sample return and human missions! All systems performed nominally and are healthy. Deployed Ramp, ChaSTE and ILSA were folded back and redeployed successfully after the experiment," ISRO further added.
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