Belagavi’s contribution to Chandrayan-3

A young scientist from Belagavi has made Karnataka state proud by contributing to Chandrayaan-3, which the country is looking forward to.

Prakash Padnekar of Anagadi village in Khanapur taluk of Belagavi district has beenworking hard for Chandrayaan-3. A young scientist from Belagavi has supported the work that the entire country is proud of, and has been training as a young scientist in Sriharikota for the past 5 years.

Prakash also worked on Chandrayaan-2 which had failed due to technical fault. At present young scientist Prakash Padnekar has worked hard for the success of Chandrayaan-3 and Chandrayaan-3 was launched from Sriharikota successfully on Friday afternoon.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 was launched on Friday at 2:35 PM from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. If this mission is successful, India will become the 4th country to land on the moon.

Servo Controls supplies parts :

Belagavi-based Servo Controller Aerospace has made some vital parts of the module. The company was founded by Deepak Dhadooti, a scientist.

Servo Controller Aerospace has supplied some parts to ISRO’s first two phases of Chandrayaan and the Mangalyan initiatives too.

Servo Controls Aerospace India Pvt Ltd a company based in Belagavi, has played a key role in this significant achievement. For many years, they have collaborated closely with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), lending their expertise in producing vital spare parts.

The manufacturing process at Belagavi’s facility combines indigenous expertise and cutting-edge foreign technology, delivering high-quality spare parts to ISRO.

Chandrayan-3 :

Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface. It consists of Lander and Rover configuration. It will be launched by LVM3 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The propulsion module will carry the lander and rover configuration till 100 km lunar orbit. The propulsion module has Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload to study the spectral and Polari metric measurements of Earth from the lunar orbit.

Lander payloads: Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) to measure the thermal conductivity and temperature; Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA) for measuring the seismicity around the landing site; Langmuir Probe (LP) to estimate the plasma density and its variations. A passive Laser Retroreflector Array from NASA is accommodated for lunar laser ranging studies.

Rover payloads: Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) for deriving the elemental composition in the vicinity of landing site.

Chandrayaan-3 consists of an indigenous Lander module (LM), Propulsion module (PM) and a Rover with an objective of developing and demonstrating new technologies required for Inter planetary missions. The Lander will have the capability to soft land at a specified lunar site and deploy the Rover which will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface during the course of its mobility. The Lander and the Rover have scientific payloads to carry out experiments on the lunar surface. The main function of PM is to carry the LM from launch vehicle injection till final lunar 100 km circular polar orbit and separate the LM from PM. Apart from this, the Propulsion Module also has one scientific payload as a value addition which will be operated post separation of Lander Module. The launcher identified for Chandrayaan-3 is GSLV-Mk3 which will place the integrated module in an Elliptic Parking Orbit (EPO) of size ~170 x 36500 km.