Chandrayaan- 3 Update.Tomorrow will be the historic day for india.

 •Chandrayaan-3 landing will be postponed to Aug 27 if...': ISRO reveals ‘Plan B’ for Vikram Lander.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will shift Chandrayaan-3’s landing to August 27 if any factor regarding the lander module appears unfavourable, said Nilesh M Desai, Director of Space Applications Centre-ISRO, Ahmedabad on Monday.

Chandrayaan-3 update: As the world awaits the most historic moment to happen, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday shared images of the moon from the far side area captured on August 19 by the Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera (LHDAC) planted in Chandrayaan-3.

On Sunday, ISRO shared that the Vikram Lander Module of chandrayaan 3 has successfully completed its second and final deboosting, reducing the Lander Module orbit to 25km x 134km. The space agency also said the powered descent is expected to commence on August 23, 2023, at around 6.04 pm.

Previously, on August 18, Vikram Lander successfully completed its first deboosting operation at 4 pm, reducing the module’s orbit to 113 km x 157 km. “The Lander Module (LM) health is normal. LM successfully underwent a deboosting operation that reduced its orbit to 113 km x 157 km. The second deboosting operation is scheduled for August 20, 2023, around 0200 Hrs," ISRO posted on X (formerly Twitter).

On August 18, ISRO also shared a video of the view from the Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1. The video captured the view after the Lander Module separated from the Main Module on August 17.

Meanwhile, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, confirmed that their Luna-25 mission had crash-landed on the Moon. This happened a day before it was supposed to touch down on the lunar south pole. On August 10, Luna-25 was launched, and on August 16, it entered lunar orbit. On August 21, Luna-25 was supposed to soft-land.

During the first de-boosting operation on Friday, former ISRO chief K Sivan told NDTV that the Chandrayaan-3 lander's design is the same as the one used in the previous Chandrayaan-2 mission.

"There is no change in design. Based on observations from Chandrayaan-2, all errors that took place in the mission have been corrected," he said.

A successful Moon landing will make India the historic fourth country to have achieved this feat.

On Thursday, the lander module separated from the propulsion module that had carried it all the way from Earth. The propulsion module will now continue orbiting Earth for months or even years, and study its atmosphere and measure the polarisation of light from clouds.