Shortly after it landed on the lunar surface, Indian-'s Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully deployed its Pragyan rover.
that according to rumors on Russian social media, “mission managers were pressured not to postpone the transfer to a lower orbit in order to beat an Indian lander to the lunar surface.”
The Vikram lander with its ramp deployed to show how the rover will roll onto the surface. Credit: ISRO The fact that Chandrayaan-3 made it to the surface safely indicates that a slow and measured approach is better than a hasty one. It was also a welcome relief after the failure of, which crashed on the lunar surface in September 2019 during an attempted landing. The lessons learned from that mission helped, which included improvements like autonomous attitude control, a Laser Doppler Velocimeter , greater systems redundancy, and stronger landing legs.
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