Draft:Chandrayaan 4

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Chandrayaan-4 is a planned mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation to achieve soft landing on the Moon followed by sample Retrieval and return to Earth. It is related to the LUPEX project undertaken by ISRO and JAXA , but comes completely under ISRO control.[1]the Landing will be similar to Chandrayaan 3 , however the ascent module will also launch back from the Moon, meet up and dock to the orbital module which will carry the samples back to Earth. It would have two launches, bringing a total of four modules to the Moon .[2]

Lunar Lander - will land on the Moon with instrumentation and support's the Ascend stage along with the soil sampling instrumentation .

Lunar Module Acender - will launch from the Moon, using the lander as a launch pad and enter lunar orbit.

Transfer module - will collect the samples from the Ascend stage and tranfer them to the re-entry module , also fire its engine to set both modules towards the Earth.

Re entry module - will hold the sample from lunar orbit. It is designed to survive atmospheric re-entry and land with the ever so precious lunar regolith.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Aman Sayyad, ANI (2023-11-17). "ISRO working on ambitious lunar missions LUPEX, Chandrayaan-4: Official". aninews.in. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  2. ^ ANI; ThePrint (2023-11-17). "ISRO working on ambitious lunar missions LUPEX, Chandrayaan-4: Official". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-11-17.