India will launch its newest Moon lander mission Chandrayaan-3, a follow-on nearly 4 years after the crash of its earlier iteration in 2019, on July 14, the nation’s area company has introduced.

The Indian House Analysis Group (ISRO) will launch the subsequent Chandrayaan (Sanskrit for “moon automobile”) mission utilizing its Launch Car Mark-III from Satish Dhawan House Centre in South India’s Sriharikota at 2:35pm IST on July 14, the area company mentioned in a tweet posted on Thursday. Codenamed LVM3-M4, the mission will comprise a lander, propulsion module and a rover — which goals to land safely and softly on the lunar floor, rove and conduct on-site scientific experiments.

The touchdown of Chandrayaan-3 will happen in August. If profitable, India’s mission will make it the fourth nation on the earth to attain a smooth touchdown on the Moon, following within the footsteps of the previous Soviet Union, the U.S. and China.

First introduced in January 2020, the Chandrayaan-3 mission was initially anticipated for 2022. The area company has integrated findings from its earlier, $140-million Moon lander mission, which failed minutes earlier than a deliberate landing on the lunar floor in September 2019. It launched in July of that yr, then travelled to the Moon throughout the intervening months.

The lander within the mission will embody applied sciences reminiscent of laser and RF-based altimeters, velocimeters, throttleable liquid engines, hazard detection and avoidance methods and a touchdown leg mechanism, the area company mentioned in a detailed notice in regards to the mission.

ISRO may even use a laser-induced breakdown spectroscope and an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer on the rover to do qualitative and quantitative elemental evaluation, and look at the basic composition of lunar soil and rocks across the touchdown web site.

Over the previous few years, India has made vital strides in advancing its area exploration efforts. The nation additionally just lately handed its area coverage to ease collaboration between authorities our bodies together with ISRO and area tech startups.

Alongside Chandrayaan, ISRO is engaged on the highly-awaited human area flight mission Gaganyaan, which intends to take three folks to a low-Earth orbit of about 250 miles for 3 days. The $1.8 billion undertaking is anticipated in 2024. Final month, India additionally signed NASA’s Artemis Accords to collaborate with this system’s taking part international locations on area exploration.