Bharat Rakshak

Useful description of the landing procedure:

Since we are talking about craters and names.... here is some tidbit - which you can perhaps only come to know in a BRF dhaga .... Or let me post the questions here, and see if people can guess (Hopefully without google). (I will post an answer if others did not find it)

Is there a crater named Modi (True/False)
Is there a crater name after Ravi? (A common name - but not any great scientist ) (True/False)
How about Sita ? (True / False)
Ramanujan - is a crater on Moon but it is named after a mathematician.

^^^
Just to lighten things up from serious science...

Huh? The Congis didn't push for lunar features to be named after Bandit NeverWho and the Nehru-Gandhi clan? Without them there would never have been any scientific progress in India or even computers and telecommunication facilities according to them.

Amber G and others... Thank you for your informative posts and taking the time to enlighten us all. Really appreciated.

Dilbu needs to be here from at least 16:00 IST on Wed 23 Aug 2023.

Ashokk wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 02:53 Good info from Scott Tilley.

https://twitter.com/coastal8049/status/ ... 6243188209

Thanks.
Also my earlier post CH2, CH3PM and CH3, orbits describes them (see <this> .. The positions could be simply calculated by figures (elements derived from JPL/NASA - reduced to simple calculation..(Assuming circular orbits would be fine as error introduced in 1-2 days is quite small).

I might put more recent base figures (especially position of CH2, CH3PM and CH3 - at recent EPOC).
(Plan for Sankara's animation was to show position of PM and CY2 too... but I don't think it is there in the web interface now)

This of course is true for the trajectories - before hard braking (18 minutes of terror starts) ..

Reposting the position of CY2, CY3 PM from Ashokk's post (HT Scott Tilley).
(Moon would below horizon where I live, but it will be above horizon in India)



(Nice thing, as I noted in the last post ;" CH2 and CH3PM are orbiting in such a way at least one of them will be in visible/radio range from CH3 around most of the time during those 14 days....Would have been nice if there were three such relays - 120 degree apart then 100% of the time, some chandrayaan would be visible from Vikram. )

Elements Keplerian for CH3PM. CH2, CH3:

a= CH3PM -> 1895.6 CH2 -> 1845 , CH3 -> 1816 Km
e = .004, .01, .03 (All are nearly circular - CH3 is little more elliptical)
Inc = 89.66, 90.3, 89.7 --All almost 90 degree (All polar orbits)
OM = 270 degree, 272 Degree, 270 Degree (All almost same plane)


Time Period 7406 secs, 7111 secs, 6946 secs
Angle from node at August 23, 00:00:00 (UTC) (X axis of ellipse)

CH3P -- 186.0, CH2 -> 50.5, CH3 -> 100.2 (All in degrees)

Special Treat for BRF!

Under 8 hours to go... There have been a couple of orbit updates yesterday ..so that has been update .. . Here comes a new Landing drone view which you can play in real time speed while watching the live telecast. !
Enjoy (Click the image to see the animation in real time ... Tomorrow 18:04 IST Landing of Vikram...

Credit: Sankara V. (See:https://sankara.net/chandrayaan3.html

sanman wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 06:49 Useful description of the landing procedure:

Cannot believe a day will come when doorknob will be quoted in C3 (or a specific deep space mission) for value of the content of his show!

India has indeed crossed a rubicon! In a very very good way.

Mort Walker wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 09:09 Dilbu needs to be here from at least 16:00 IST on Wed 23 Aug 2023.

Reporting for duty sir. Chandrayaan 3 will not successfully soft land onlee.

Disha What time is the landing in California time?

ramana wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 11:34 Disha What time is the landing in California time?

Starts about 5:15AM PDT.

Dilbu wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 11:09

Mort Walker wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 09:09 Dilbu needs to be here from at least 16:00 IST on Wed 23 Aug 2023.

Reporting for duty sir. Chandrayaan 3 will not successfully soft land onlee.

Don't sleep!

ramana wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 11:34 Disha What time is the landing in California time?

Live telecast will begin at

* US 4:50 AM PDT (California), 7:50 AM EDT (New York).

* AUS 9:50 PM Sydney NSW
* IST 5:20 PM (India)

Link for live telecast below:

https://www.isro.gov.in/LIVE_telecast_o ... nding.html

ETA for touchdown is ~ 5:34 AM PDT/7:34 AM EDT / 6:04 PM IST

https://twitter.com/isro/status/1694248755594436829

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
All set to initiate the Automatic Landing Sequence (ALS).
Awaiting the arrival of Lander Module (LM) at the designated point, around 17:44 Hrs. IST.

Upon receiving the ALS command, the LM activates the throttleable engines for powered descent.
The mission operations team will keep confirming the sequential execution of commands.

The live telecast of operations at MOX begins at 17:20 Hrs. IST

https://twitter.com/SGinIndia/status/16 ... 4130397598

Tweet from Singapore High Commission

I am joining the billions of people in praying for the success of the #Chandrayaan3 mission. - HC Wong

Scientific paper on how the landing site for CY3 was chosen - Terrain Characterisation of Potential Landing Sites for Chandrayaan-3 Lander using Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) Images

CanberraDSN @CanberraDSN
Antenna Deep Space Station 36 #DSS36, will later be joined by #DSS34 and other antennas around the world in supporting #Chandrayaan3 as it attempts a landing on the Moon at ~10:35pm AEST tonight

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

Ought to be sleeping, and not playing video games .... will get up in a few hours..

Meanwhile: descent orbit of 20 minutes is shown in yellow color ... and view angle can be changed.. (Not actual, but mathematically correct view..) Good night (here it is)...

Meanwhile:
""Clear skies in Western Australia as we begin our first of two sessions tracking #Chandrayaan3 with this antenna today..."

Concentration on work is very poor today. I am on my 3rd coffee break already.

Mukesh.Kumar wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 15:29 Concentration on work is very poor today. I am on my 3rd coffee break already.

Fingers crossed. Let us see if "Somanath" and the two "Pragyans" live up to their names today

Yes! All the best to the other Praggyan as well, though his task is much harder I think

Chandrayaan 3 will not successfully soft land onlee.

Prabisi nagar kijiye sab kaaza
Hriday Rahkhi Kaushalpur Raja....

Heart beats increasing...cannot sit at one place.

Good luck India
Good luck ISRO

18 mins to powered descent

Hey Prabhu, raksha karna!!

what is the best website to see it?

Sad dilbu is MIA

fanne wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 17:32 what is the best website to see it?

ISRO Official Broadcast:

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Chandrayaan 3 will not successfully soft land onlee.

fanne wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 17:33 Sad dilbu is MIA

But our Talisman is here.

Dilbu wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 17:37 Chandrayaan 3 will not successfully soft land onlee.

Welcome Dilbu Sir !! Power descent begun

live feed:

Chandrayaan 3 will not successfully soft land onlee.

20% work done, per live commentary

"Performance so far is nominal".

Altitude is less than 30km.
...
Now less than 28km

Youtube shows 5.5M live viewers for the ISRO live stream. It was 4M about 10 mins ago. Good to see the enthusiasm.

vertical velocity increasing

Seems that way, altitude < 20km now