Know how Chandrayaan-3 differs from the ill-fated Luna-25

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Various countries are in a quest to reach the moon and that includes India and Russia. Notably, while India is on the verge of fulfilling its mission to Land on the Moon through the Chandrayaan- 3 spacecraft, Russia's ill-fated spacecraft Luna-25 crashed on August 20. Let's take a look at how both of these Lunar Missions are different from each other.

As we know, Chandrayaan-3 has 3 main objectives, first to demonstrate capabilities to effect a Safe and Soft Landing on the Lunar Surface, to demonstrate a Rover roving on the moon, and to conduct in-situ scientific experiments. Chandrayaan-3 lander is expected to perform a soft landing on the South Pole of the Moon on August 23 at 18:04 PM IST.

On the other hand, Luna-25 had different objectives. According to NASA, it aimed to investigate the makeup of the lunar surface material. The other objective was to examine the plasma and dust constituents that are present within the Moon's polar exosphere.

While Russia's Luna-25 mission was said to cost for Rs. 1600 crore, India's Chandrayaan-3 is way less expensive. According to ISRO, the approved cost for this mission is Rs. 250 crore which includes the cost of the rover and the propulsion module of the Chandrayaan-3 Mission. The remaining cost of the launch service of Chandrayaan-3 is Rs. 365 crore, which makes it a total budget of Rs. 615 crore. Chandrayaan-3 is also less costly than its predecessors i.e. Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2. The total cost of the Chandrayaan-2 mission was 978 crore.

Currently, India is the only player left in the journey of Moon exploration. This will help India to embark on a great achievement in the field of space exploration and if this Mission succeeds, India will become the 4th country in the