Tag: Chandrayaan-3 payload

BENGALURU: The Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), the fourth payload Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram took to the lunar surface, will start its work once the rest of its onboard instruments and two on Pragyan go to sleep, at the end of the lunar day.While three other payloads on Vikram, the Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive ionosphere and Atmosphere (RAMBHA), Chandra’s Surface Thermo physical Experiment (ChaSTE) and Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA), have been turned on by Isro, LRA is an instrument built by NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre.Pragyan...