Tag: ISRO’s improvements for lunar landing

Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon is scheduled between 5:30 pm and 8 pm on Wednesday. One can bet on success because the reasons for the last-minute failure of Chandrayaan-2 have been pinpointed and corrective steps taken. Chandrayaan-2 failed to soft-land because of a chain of events triggered by a valve’s failure to reduce flow into the engines. As more than ordered fuel went to the engines, a higher thrust was generated, which disturbed the attitude (orientation) of the lander, a software glitch failing to correct it. The slow rate at which the thruster was designed to turn...