Chandrayaan-3

Key concepts

How Chandrayaan-3 connects to the ideas, people and events around it.

1. Sanskrit

   Sanskrit is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age.

2. Chandra

   Chandra, also known as Soma, is the Hindu god of the Moon, and is associated with the night, plants and vegetation. He is one of the Navagraha.

3. Chandrayaan programme

   The Chandrayaan programme is an ongoing series of outer space missions by ISRO for the exploration of the Moon. The program incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a lunar lander and a rover spacecraft.

4. Exploration of the Moon

   The physical exploration of the Moon began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made a deliberate impact on the surface of the Moon on 14 September, 1959.

5. ISRO

   The Indian Space Research Organisation is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

6. Chandrayaan-2

   Chandrayaan-2 is the second lunar exploration mission developed by ISRO after Chandrayaan-1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, the Vikram lunar lander, and the Pragyan rover, all of which were developed in India.

7. Lunar lander

   A lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon.

8. Pragyan (Chandrayaan-3)

   Pragyan is a lunar rover that forms part of Chandrayaan-3, a lunar mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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