Chandrayaan-4 Mission: ISRO Achieves Successful Docking Test, Eyes Indigenous Moon Landing by 2040

Muzaffarpur (The Uttam Hindu): ISRO senior scientist and Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3 operation director Amitabh Kumar said that the Indian government aims to land an Indian citizen on the surface of the moon through an indigenous spacecraft by 2040. This ambitious mission has been named Chandrayaan-4, which is also being called a "sample returning mission".

Chandrayaan-4's target

Under the Chandrayaan-4 mission, soil samples will be collected from the surface of the moon and brought to Earth. This process is an important step towards sending humans to the moon in the future. So far, ISRO has successfully landed on the surface of the moon, but the experiment of returning from there is yet to be done. ISRO has recently worked on the technology of docking and undocking. This experiment has been successfully completed in the Earth's orbit. In the next phase, it will also be tested in the Moon's orbit. This is an important achievement of ISRO this year.

Work on Chandrayaan-4 mission is underway with a budget of Rs 1200 crore

and it is planned to be completed by 2027-28. A budget of around Rs 1200 crore has been set for this mission. Amitabh Kumar said that Chandrayaan mission is not only a matter of pride for India but it has also given us a lot of new information from a scientific point of view. There is a sharp drop in temperature as soon as we go just 10-15 centimetres below the surface of the moon, which indicates that there is ice or something that controls the temperature below the surface.

India has become the first country to reach closest to the South Pole of the Moon. The information obtained from there is unique in the world. Scientists believe that there may have been life on the Moon at some point. Now it is a matter of research as to how life ended there and whether a similar incident can happen on Earth in the future.