Chadrayaan-3: Where and how to watch historic ISRO moon landing

Chandrayaan-3 mission is going smoothly as planned, and the spacecraft has successfully started separating modules in space. The landing module, Vikram Lander, named in honour of Vikram Sarabhai, is finally detached from the propulsion module. India is just a few hours away from becoming the first country to land on the lunar south pole of the Moon. The Vikram lander is scheduled to land on Moon in the evening at 6:04 PM IST. If you are interested in watching the live streaming of the landing, here’s how you can do it.

Where and how to watch Chandrayaan-3 moon landing

On various platforms, the live telecast of India’s Lunar Mission, Chandrayaan-3, will be shown. You can watch the Vikram Lander landing on the moon on ISRO’s social media handles like Facebook, Youtube or on ISRO’s website and on Doordarshan TV as well. The live telecast will start on all of these platforms at 5:20 PM IST, and interested viewers can start watching the landing from 5:27 PM IST.

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As for the recent updates, the landing module is currently finding a spot to soft-land on the Moon. India is just some steps away from being the fourth country to soft-land on the Moon. The other three countries are the US, Russia and China. 

The next step after landing will be the release of Pragyan Rover to search for water and study the chemical composition of the surface of the Moon during a lunar day. 

Chandrayaan-2, which was launched in 2019, said hello to Chandrayaan-3's Lunar Module on Monday, announced by the Indian Space Research Organisation. They mentioned that both of these spacecraft can talk to each other. 

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ISRO also said that India is getting closer to completing another mission to the Moon, which is Chandrayaan-3. This mission aims to safely land on the Moon's surface. This is a big achievement for India in science, engineering, technology, and industry. It shows that India is making good progress in exploring space, according to the space agency.

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