Chandrayaan-3: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission have been put into “sleep mode” .
‘Vikram Lander is set into sleep mode around 08:00 Hrs. IST today. Prior to that, in-situ experiments by ChaSTE, RAMBHA-LP and ILSA payloads are performed at the new location. The data collected is received at the Earth. Payloads are now switched off. Lander receivers are kept ON. Vikram will fall asleep next to Pragyan once the solar power is depleted and the battery is drained. Hoping for their awakening, around September 22, 2023.’ ISRO posted on X formerly twitter on Monday 4th September 2023.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission have been put into “sleep mode” . The rover has completed its assignments and has been safely parked and set into sleep mode . The lander and rover will fall asleep next to each other once the solar power is depleted and the battery is drained . ISRO hopes that they will reawaken “around 22 September” when the next lunar day starts .
The Pragyan rover had traversed over 100 meters on the lunar surface from the Shiv Shakti Point, the touchdown spot of the Vikram lander on the lunar surface, before being put into sleep mode . The Vikram lander had soft-landed on the Moon’s little-explored south pole on August 23, 2023, carrying a rover called Pragyaan in its belly . With that, India became the first country to land near the lunar south pole. It also joined an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union, and China .
The lander and rover need sunlight to charge their batteries and function. They have been put in “sleep mode” as the sun begins to set on the Moon, and they will reawaken once sunlight is available again. ISRO has been providing regular updates on their movements and findings and sharing images taken by them. worldnewsstudio.com/chandrayaan-3-the-indian-space-research-organisation-isro-has-announced-that-the-vikram-lander-and-pragyan-rover-of-the-chandrayaan-3-mission-have-been-put-into-sleep-mode/