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India’s Moon Mission Has Failure-Based Design, ISRO Chief Says

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Chandrayaan-3 - Sputnik India, 1920, 11.07.2023
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India’s Moon mission, the Chandrayaan-3, is set for launch on Friday, July 14, and is intended to land a rover in the southern hemisphere of the Moon’s surface. If successful, India will become only the fifth country after Russia, China, the US, and France to make a controlled lunar landing.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief S Somanath said the space agency had designed the Chandrayaan-3 with a failure-based approach.
The Chandrayaan-2 was a partially unsuccessful mission when communication between the lander rover, Vikram, and Earth's mission control station was lost after the rover crashed.

“ISRO has decided to go ahead with a failure-based design instead of success-based design for Chandrayaan-3. What all can fail, and how to protect it - this is the approach that we have taken...” Somanath said.

“In nutshell if you tell what the problem in Chandrayaan-2 was, it is simple to say that the ability to handle parameter variation or dispersion was very limited. So, what we did this time was simply expand it further. Look at what are the things that can go wrong…” he explained.
The Launch Vehicle Mark-III will launch the Chandrayaan-3. A soft-landing on the lunar surface is expected on 23 or 24 August. The Chandrayaan-3 mission has scientific instruments to study the thermo-physical properties of the lunar seismicity, regolith, surface plasma environment, and elemental composition.
"LVM3-M4/Chandrayaan-3 Mission:The launch is now scheduled for July 14, 2023, at 2:35 pm IST from SDSC, Sriharikota", the ISRO said in a tweet.
Fishing boats are seen secured on a concrete embankment at Jakhau Port of Kutch district in Gujarat state on June 14, 2023, ahead of cyclone Biparjoy landfall. - Sputnik India, 1920, 19.06.2023
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