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Kalpana Kalahasti
Associate Project Director, Chandrayaan-3
Mission Accomplished with

Touchdown on the Moon

It is a remarkable success — again bouncing back for
a momentous occasion which demonstrating success in
we all have to celebrate because Chandrayaan-3, we really had
as a country, we are the first to to first look at what really went
be on the south pole of the Moon wrong and had to understand
and also the fourth country to what were the improvements
accomplish a soft landing on the required and how we have to
lunar surface. So, it is definitely a rebuild this spacecraft. So, in
joyous moment and an outcome the initial phase, it was crucial
of immense and untiring efforts to understand what needs to be
of our entire team. done and after that we started
The Mission was challenging our actual work of building the
because we had a lot of new spacecraft. We had to do all the
technology to demonstrate as required tests and simulations.
the landing is totally different The simulations were exhaustive
compared to other remote accounting all the possible
sensing satellites. We really dispersion cases which could be
had to come out with all the possible. We had to foresee what
new technologies required could go wrong and we had to
for soft landing. We could build a satellite which could
demonstrate to a great extent handle all such cases.
during Chandrayaan-2 and Moments before the landing,

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