{"id":1174337,"date":"2023-08-22T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1174337"},"modified":"2023-08-22T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:00:53","slug":"watch-indias-chandrayaan-3-try-to-land-on-the-moon-here-at-834am-et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1174337","title":{"rendered":"Watch India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 try to land on the Moon here at 8:34AM ET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll soon learn if India will be the first nation to nail a soft landing on the moon\u2019s south pole. The Indian Space Research Organisation\u2019s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission, which launched on July 14th and entered lunar orbit on August 5th, will attempt to touch down on Wednesday at around 8:34AM EDT. It follows Russia\u2019s <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/russia-heads-to-the-moon-for-the-first-time-in-47-years-203057705.html\">attempt to beat India<\/a> to the punch that <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/russias-luna-25-spacecraft-crashes-into-the-moon-093542172.html\">ended badly<\/a>. The ISRO\u2019s live telecast (watch below) is scheduled to begin at 3:50AM EDT.<\/p>\n<p>The Chandrayaan-3\u2019s Vikram lander will try to touch down near the Moon\u2019s south pole, which is believed to <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-08-21-nasa-confirms-ice-moon-poles.html\">contain water ice<\/a>. It could provide crucial water, oxygen and fuel for future lunar missions and bases. However, touching down could prove challenging as the region is known for rugged terrain and shadowy craters. This mission\u2019s immediate predecessor, the Chandrayaan-2, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-09-08-india-finds-missing-lunar-lander.html\">crashed in 2019<\/a> as it descended to the lunar south pole.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chandrayaan-3 uses a \u201cfailure-based design\u201d to incorporate lessons from the 2019 \u201c<a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-12-03-vikram-lunar-lander-crash-site.html\">hard landing<\/a>.\u201d The new version includes an expanded landing area, software upgrades and more redundant systems to back up potential outages.<\/p>\n<p>The IRSO\u2019s X (formerly Twitter) account <a data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isro\/status\/1693879632481935555\">posted<\/a> early Tuesday morning, \u201cThe mission is on schedule. Systems are undergoing regular checks. Smooth sailing is continuing.\u201d It also posted <a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isro\/status\/1693469304619188516\">pictures<\/a> of the Moon\u2019s surface taken from orbit.<\/p>\n<p>You can tune in here early Wednesday morning (US time) to view the Indian lander\u2019s descent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"34283fccd0ea4f5183f666992c859324\" \/>\n<p \/>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/watch-indias-chandrayaan-3-try-to-land-on-the-moon-here-at-834am-et-200053930.html?src=rss&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Engadget &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/watch-indias-chandrayaan-3-try-to-land-on-the-moon-here-at-834am-et-200053930.html?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 try to land on the Moon here at 8:34AM ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll soon learn if India will be the first nation to nail a soft landing on the moon\u2019s south pole. The Indian Space Research Organisation\u2019s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission, which launched on July 14th and entered lunar orbit on August 5th, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1174337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1174337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}