Chandrayaan-3: What to expect from India’s mission to Moon’s south pole

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India is making its second attempt to achieve the unprecedented soft landing of a spacecraft near the Moon’s south pole with the Chandrayaan-3 mission launched on Friday.

The mission is a successor of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) failed attempt in 2019 to land a rover on the lunar surface, in which a last-minute glitch sent the spacecraft crash-landing into the Moon’s surface.