Chandrayaan-3: India hopes to land a rover on the Moon for the first time

By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University

On Wednesday August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission Chandrayaan-3 will deploy its lander and rover to the surface of the Moon.

As the name suggests, this is the third mission in a programme of Indian lunar exploration. Various problems affected the previous two Chandrayaan satellites, so officials at the Indian space agency will be hoping for a fully successful mission this time.

So what will Chandrayaan-3 do? We already have some nice…

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