Landing on the Moon: The Failure of Chandrayaan 3 and the Failures of ISRO and Hakuto-R Mission 1
“You have to make a lot of sophisticated calculations as you come in for landing to fire those thrusters just right,” Davis says. “There’s not a lot of margin for error.”
Landing on the Moon is no easy task, and many efforts are not very successful. After a three month journey, the Japanese startup ispace lost contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander, while the Israeli Moon- landing mission ended in disaster when the Beresheet engine failed during the final descent. The same year as the ISRO lost contact with the Chandrayaan-2 landers, it also reported a failure.
Davis says Chandrayaan 3 is a repeat of that failed attempt. The landers has instruments that study earthquakes on the moon, as well as other aspects of the local environment. It has a small rover and is also carrying a solar-powered vehicle.
Davis thinks that India likely has learned a great deal by analyzing the data from its failed 2019 landing attempt. He says that Chandrayaan 3 is more likely to succeed.
Luna-25: The Moon-bound Mission for a Proven Design and with an Upgraded 21st Century Sub-Saturn Mission
The lack of atmosphere means there’s no way to slow down using a parachute. Instead, spacecraft must rely on thrusters to break their fall at just the right moment.
“The moon is kind of a unique challenge because it has no atmosphere,” says Jason Davis, an editor with the Planetary Society, a non-profit devoted to space exploration.
It should work well because it’s a proven design. All of the designers and pilots who flew the old Luna missions have retired. Zak doesn’t know if they’ll be able to stick the landing.
Zak says that the mission has been going on for a long time. The four-legged lander has a robotic arm it can use to collect surface samples.
Zak says that the last mission took place in 1976. The new mission is based on the old Soviet design. “It’s a kind of upgraded 21st century version of that Soviet spacecraft that landed on the moon in the 70s.”
Luna-25’s Moon-bound mission began in 2015, and this landing was meant to be a precursor to an eventual crewed mission to the Moon in 2029. This mission is not good news for the Russian army, which has been starving of funding as a result.
Studying the South Pole Ice of the Moon with a Luna-25 Space Vehicle on August 21st, and Mars on July 17th, 2002
They’re also landing quite near each other on the lunar surface, according to Brett Denevi, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
China and NASA intend to send their own missions to the south pole, which may seem like the least cool place to land on the moon right now, but it also hosts some of the hottest places. That’s because some craters near the south pole lie in permanent shadow.
They could have water that was frozen. Denevi says the water is interesting from a scientific standpoint because it could provide clues about how this life-giving compound came to our part of the solar system. Any nation that gets ahold of that precious H2O would be able to use it for a variety of things.
According to Anatoly Zak, the publisher of RussianSpaceWeb.com, Russia is no stranger to the moon. More than a dozen trips to the moon were made when it was part of the Soviet Union.
The Luna-25 space vehicle was expected to land on the Moon on August 21st, but it was delayed due to a technical glitch. The organization said that Luna-25 had been lost.
Luna 25 wanted to study the south pole ice of the Moon in order to learn more about the formation of the satellite. The scientist was quoted as saying that analysis of the ice would allow scientists to look at the amount of water on the satellite and whether it was related to the development of water on the Earth. The unnamed scientist said the study would help determine whether the Moon formed independently, or if it was instead blasted apart from the Earth by an extraterrestrial impact.