Chandrayaan-3

Introduction

India’s successful moon landing on Wednesday ushers in a new era for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) space missions, as for the first time, ISRO now has a rover plying on another celestial body. However, being more than 384,400 km away from the Moon, the mission team has no way of navigating the satellite. The Pragyan rover, which formed part of the just-landed Chandrayaan-3, is thus on its own on the Moon. The rover not only has to be able to see its surroundings, but it also has to make decisions about where to move and avoid hazardous …