‘I am feeling lunar gravity,’ Chandrayaan-3’s message to Isro after entering Moon’s orbit

Saturday, 5 August 2023
“MOX, ISTRAC, this is Chandrayaan-3. I am feeling lunar gravity,’ is the first message that India’s third lunarcraft sent to the Isro centres back to the Earth after entering the Moon’s orbit that the space agency tweeted. The spacecraft made the lunar orbit entry after escaping the Earth's gravity and covering a long distance of 384,400 km from the ‘Blue Planet’.

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