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On August 17, the Lander Module, comprising the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, successfully separated from the Propulsion Module, marking a significant milestone in the mission.

Bengaluru, Aug 17: India's Chandrayaan-3 mission on Thursday achieved a major milestone when its Lander Module carrying the rover inside successfully separated from the Propulsion Module to be on course for an unprecedented soft-landing on the moon's South Pole planned on August 23. The Lander Module comprising the Lander Vikram and rover Pragyan is now

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's lander Vikram, which successfully separated from its propulsion module and continued its journey towards the Moon yesterday, will undergo a deboosting manoeuvre today at 4:00 pm today.

The Vikram lander shared the first images of the moon, today, after successfully detaching from the spacecraft's propulsion.

ISRO on Friday said that Chandrayaan-3’s Lander Module has successfully undergone a deboosting (slowing down) operation taking it closer to the Moon, and that its health is normal....

The next de-boosting operation will be carried out on August 20, before the landing scheduled for August 23 between 5:30pm and 6pm | Latest News India

Chennai: Deboosting operation to descend the Lander Module (LM) to a lower orbit of the Chandryaan-3 spacecraft was successfully performed at 1600 hrs on Friday, ISRO announced.

Chandrayaan-3: Deboosting is the process of slowing down to position itself in an orbit where the orbits closest point to the Moon (Perilune) is 30 km and the farthest point (the Apolune) is 100 km.

The Indian space agency successfully separated the moon lander from the main spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on Thursday afternoon.

Russias Luna-25 and Indias Chandrayaan-3 are in a tight race to make a soft landing on the south pole of the Moon for the first time and even though the Luna-25 was launched weeks after Chandrayaan-3, it could land on Moon two days earlier.