Chandrayaan Is All Set To Land On Moon

The Chandrayaan-3's Lander Module's final deboosting operation has reduced its orbit to 25x134 km around the Moon, Isro said on Sunday. The powered descent will begin on August 23, 5:45 pm, in four broad phases: Rough braking phase; Attitude Hold Phase; Fine Braking Phase; Terminal Descent Phase. In September 2019, the attempt at the automated soft landing on the Moon by the Chandrayaan 2 lander ended in failure after the lander did not switch appropriately from the horizontal position to the vertical position but instead hurtled onto the lunar surface when it was entering a "fine braking phase" at a height of 7.42 km from the surface.