Chandrayaan-3: 'Vikram' soft-lands again and performs a successful 'hop test' all on its own

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After India scripted history by soft-landing the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface on August 23, ISRO said yesterday that the lander has successfully "hopped" on the surface of the Moon by itself. Calling it a "hop test", the Indian Space Research Organisation announced that the Vikram lander made a soft landing on the lunar surface again recently when it fired the engines on command, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected, and landed safely at a distance of 30 to 40 cm away. With this, India’s moon lander Vikram can hop around the moon all on its own after the moon rover Pragyan went to sleep. According to ISRO, Vikram soft landed on the lunar soil for a second time. In a post on X, ISRO said: "Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives. It successfully underwent a hop experiment." "On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 – 40 cm away.

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00:00 After India scripted history by soft landing the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 on the

00:08 lunar surface on August 23, ISRO said yesterday that the lander has successfully hopped on

00:13 the surface of the moon all by itself.

00:16 Calling it a "hop test", the ISRO announced that the Vikram lander made a soft landing

00:21 on the lunar surface again recently when it fired the engines on command, elevated itself

00:26 by about 40 centimetres as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30-40 centimetres

00:32 away.

00:33 With this, India's moon lander Vikram can now hop around the moon all on its own after

00:39 the moon rover Pragyan went to sleep.

00:42 According to ISRO, Vikram soft landed on the lunar soil for a second time.

00:46 In a post on X, ISRO said, "Vikram lander exceeded its mission objectives.

00:51 It successfully underwent a hop experiment.

00:54 On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 centimetres as expected

00:59 and landed safely at a distance of 30-40 centimetres away."

01:04 According to the space agency, the kickstart gives enthusiasm for lunar sample return in

01:08 the future and also for manned missions to the moon.

01:12 All systems performed nominally and are healthy.

01:15 Deployed RAM, CHEST and ILSA were folded back and redeployed successfully after the experiment,

01:21 ISRO said.

01:24 Last week on Saturday, ISRO had shared that the Pragyan rover installed in Chandrayaan-3

01:28 has been put to sleep and the space agency hopes to wake the rover up 14 days later on

01:33 September 22, 2023.

01:36 Chandrayaan-3, equipped with Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, was launched on July 14

01:42 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

01:45 The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 successfully did the soft landing on the south pole of

01:50 the lunar surface on August 23.

01:52 The success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission made India the fourth country in the world to perform

01:56 a successful touchdown on the lunar surface and the first country to reach the uncharted

02:01 south pole of the moon.

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Chandrayaan-3: 'Vikram' soft-lands again and performs a successful 'hop test' all on its own

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