Chandrayaan-3’s last deboosting was also successful, now preparations for soft landing begin

New Delhi. ISRO said in the early hours of Sunday that the second and final deboosting operation of Chandrayaan-3 has been successfully completed. ISRO has carried out the necessary work to reduce the speed of Chandrayaan-3 and send it into the close orbit of the Moon.

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After this the module will now be internally tested. The powered descent is expected to begin on 23 August. During which the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface will be completed.

Deboosting is the process of slowing down Chandrayaan to place it in an orbit where the orbit’s closest point to the Moon (perilune) is 30 km. and the most distant point (Apollo) is 100 km.

ISRO said on X (earlier Twitter) that ‘the second and final deboosting operation successfully raised the LM orbit to 25 km. x134 kms. reduced to .

The module will undergo an internal check and wait for sunrise at the designated landing site. Powered descent is expected to start at around 17.45 hrs Indian time (IST) on 23rd August.

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Earlier on Friday, Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander underwent an important deboosting process and descended into a slightly lower orbit after successfully separating from the propulsion module a day earlier.