A group of ISRO scientists prays at the Tirupati temple the day before the launch of Chandrayaan-3.

On Thursday, the countdown for the Chandrayaan-3
mission will commence. At 1:05 p.m., the 26-hour countdown will commence.

Chandrayaan-3, India’s third moon exploration
mission, will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on
a Launch Vehicle Mark-3 rocket on Friday at 2.35 p.m. The propulsion module
will transport the lander and rover to a lunar orbit at 100 km in altitude.

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A day before the launch, a team of scientists from
the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) visited the Tirupati
Venkatachalapathy Temple with a model of the Chandrayaan-3 satellite. A group of approximately eight scientists was observed
entering the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh.

Isro’s Scientific Secretary, Shantanu Bhatwadekar,
was a member of the crew.

After offering prayers at Sri Chengalamma Temple in
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, Isro Chairman S. Somanath announced on Thursday,
“Chandrayaan-3 will launch tomorrow.” We hope that everything goes as
planned and the spacecraft lands on the moon on August 23.”

On Thursday, the countdown for the Chandrayaan-3
mission will commence. At 1:05 pm, the 26-hour countdown will commence.

The Chandrayaan-3 launch rehearsal, which lasted 24
hours, was also completed on Tuesday. Tweeted Isro .The 24-hour ‘Launch
Rehearsal’ simulation of the entire launch preparation and process has
concluded.”

Wednesday, Isro announced that the ‘Mission
Readiness Review’ (MRR) for Chandrayaan-3 had been completed. “The launch
has been approved by the (MRR) board,” the space agency announced on
Twitter. The final countdown begins tomorrow.

Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-up mission to
Chandrayaan-2. The mission’s objective is to demonstrate end-to-end lunar
landing and roving safety capability.

The components of Chandrayaan-3 are an indigenous
lander module, a propulsion module, and a rover. Its objectives include the
development and demonstration of new interplanetary technologies. 

The lander
will be capable of landing at a predetermined lunar location and deploying the
rover, which will conduct a chemical analysis of the lunar surface during its
mobility.

The lander and rover will be equipped with
scientific instruments to conduct investigations on the lunar surface.

Isro is currently conducting a series of space
missions known as the Chandrayaan programme or the Indian moon exploration
initiative. In 2008, we sent the first rocket to the moon, called
Chandrayaan-1, into lunar orbit.

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