Chandrayaan 3: What is ISRO's 'failure-based design' and how it can lead to successful landing?

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday said that it has undertaken a 24-hour "launch rehearsal" simulating the entire launch preparation and process for the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is slated to be launched on July 14 at 2:35 pm onboard a Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.  

"The ‘Launch Rehearsal’ simulating the entire launch preparation and process lasting 24 hours has been concluded," ISRO tweeted on July 11.

Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar exploration mission is ready to take off in fourth operational mission (M4) of LVM3 launcher. It is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface.

Chandrayaan-3 consists of an indigenous propulsion module, lander module, and a rover with an objective of developing and demonstrating new technologies required for inter-planetary missions. The propulsion module will carry the lander and rover from injection orbit to till 100 km lunar orbit. It also carries a Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planetary Earth (SHAPE) payload to study the spectral and polarimetric measurements of earth from the lunar orbit.

(With PTI inputs)

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