Tag: Chandrayaan-3 measures taken for a soft landing on moon surface

Former President Abdul Kalam used to say that FAIL is actually an abbreviation for ‘first attempt in learning’. ISRO has learnt a lot from its first attempt at a moon landing, the Chandrayaan-2. Accordingly, some crucial changes have been incorporated in Chandrayaan-3. The basic reason why Chandrayaan-2 crashed was that the flow of fuel into the thrusters (engines on the lander, which provide an upward push against the descent, so that the vehicle slows down) did not come down.As a result, the engines generated more thrust than they were supposed to, causing the vehicle to change its orientation....