After the Union Cabinet gave the green light to India's fourth moon mission, Chandrayaan 4, the scientific community expressed hope that the country would soon be able to collect rocks and lunar soil from its lander on the moon and bring them back to the spacecraft.
A scientist was optimistic about the efforts of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and said that we are not far away from sending an astronaut to the moon. The success of this mission would pave the way for future human space exploration.
Former director of the Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad, Tapan Misra, said: “We should be able to land a lander there and collect rocks and lunar soil and bring it back to the orbiter, and with this orbiter we should be able to come back safely and carry out the retaliation,” he reported ANNI-.
He noted that this space mission is the “first step towards sending an Indian astronaut to the moon”. Expressing confidence in ISRO's upcoming mission, he said, “We are not far away from sending an astronaut to the moon.”
Highlighting the upcoming three programmes approved by the Indian government, including Chandrayaan 4, Tapan Misra said: “We are happy that Chandrayaan 3 has landed there… we have demonstrated two crucial technologies, we can send something to the moon and bring it back, and we can fire a rocket after landing and wait for 14 days, it is a major development,” he reported ANNI-.
Astronomer and professor RC Kapoor explained that the Chandrayaan 4 mission will be completed with the help of 2 rockets, which is a lunar sample return mission. Giving details about the mission, Kapoor said that the moon mission will be launched in 2027. “The first rocket will be similar to the GSLV MkIII, which will have an ascender module and descender module, the second rocket will be launched later,” ANI quoted RC Kapoor as saying.
Kapoor described the mission as follows: lunar samples will be collected using a robotic arm in the descent module, which will then be transferred to the ascent module.
The comments came after the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 18 approved a new moon mission. ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Wednesday announced plans to launch the first module of Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS-1) by 2028. Speaking in the national capital, he said the Chandrayaaan-4 mission is primarily aimed at demonstrating the technology to go to the moon and then return.
