Chandrayaan-3: Vikram Lander to Awaken From Sleep Mode Today | Information on Mission Phase 2

Today is probably the day when India’s Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander awakens from sleep mode. The mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation will then enter its second phase as a result.

If the lander awakens and starts to function once again, it would be another significant achievement for India. This will also make it possible for the spaceship to repeat the same experiments again.

Former ISRO Chairman K Sivan expressed his expectation that the endeavor to awaken the Lander and the Rover will lead to a lot of new developments. “We must wait and observe. There has been a lunar night. The new lunar day has begun. They will now attempt to awaken. It will be OK if all the systems are working.There will be many more brand-new sciences developed after this. The data from Chandrayaan-1 has already led to several discoveries. I thus anticipate seeing a lot of new stuff. Scientists will continue to attempt. So, the narrative is not over yet, he remarked.

According to Minister of State Jitendra Singh, Pragyan Rover and Vikram Lander will awaken after being exposed to sunlight.

During his speech to the Lok Sabha on the fourth day of the extraordinary session of Parliament, Singh remarked, “Our Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover will awaken in a few hours when Moon will face the Sun. We built up solar batteries and panels in such a way that a communication circuit would be triggered when Vikram faced the sun. Pragyan and Vikram are waiting for a wake-up call.

On September 22, ISRO announced on X that it will wait for Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover to reach a particular temperature before attempting to re-establish contact.

The Shiv Shakti point is expected to have seen sunrise today, which means Vikram and Pragyan will soon be receiving useful amounts of sunlight. #ISRO will now wait for them to warm up above a certain temperature before starting attempts to re-establish communications with them on September 22.

On September 2, the space agency reported that the Pragyan Rover had “completed its assignments” on the lunar surface and had been “safely parked and set into sleep mode”. Since the Shiv Shakti point’s sunset on September 4, the Lander and the Rover have been completely in the dark.

On August 23, India’s Chandrayaan-3, which had been launched on July 14, made a successful landing on the south pole of the moon. Since then, ISRO has received data from Pragyan and Vikram, some of which has been made available to the general public.

India became the first nation to ever go to the Moon’s south pole. The Vikram Lander’s landing site will be called as “Shiv Shakti,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his remarks after the mission’s accomplishment.

“‘Tiranga’ will be the name given to the location on the lunar surface where Chandrayaan-2 left its imprints. This will serve as motivation for all of India’s efforts. We shall be reminded that no failure is ever fatal, he said.

Rajnath Singh, the Union Defense Minister, described Chandrayaan-3 as a significant accomplishment for the country and said that many industrialized nations are still attempting to reach the Moon while India has already done it with very less resources.

According to the press release, India’s unwavering efforts have helped it to become one of the world’s top scientific powers today.