India takes a chance on the hostile south pole of the Moon after Russia's failure

By 23/08/2023 Portal

At this time, the mission Chandrayaan-3 Launched by India last July, it is orbiting the Moon waiting to begin the braking sequence that will take it to the south polar region. The chosen landing site is about 150 kilometers north of the Bogulawsky crater, where Russia wanted to land its spacecraft. Moon-25 to win this new space race. But on Sunday Moscow lost communication and its probe crashed into the satellite; a new demonstration of how complicated it is to land on the moon. Only the United States, the Soviet Union and China have achieved this so far. Nobody has done it yet near the pole, where there may be huge water reserves ice to support future manned space missions.

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