"All planned Rover movements have been verified. The Rover has successfully traversed a distance of about 8 meters. Rover payloads LIBS and APXS are turned ON. All payloads on the propulsion module, lander module, and rover are performing nominally," ISRO said in a tweet.
Badenoch emphasized that India's advanced skills and its ability to achieve what no other country has done before demonstrate its prominent position in the world.
Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan on Thursday said that the Chandrayaan 2 mission could not achieve success due to a small error that occured in the year 2019.
As the country rejoiced the successful placement of the ISRO lander — Vikram — on the moon's uncharted South Pole, the agency's chairman S Somanath on Thursday confirmed that its maiden solar mission 'Aditya' is in the works and will be ready for launch in September.
The lessons learned from the failure of Chandrayaan-2 contributed to the success of India's third lunar mission, former space scientist with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientist, Nambi Narayanan, said after successful touchdown of the 'Vikram' lander on the lunar South
“This is definitely a proud moment for the country, proud of Chandrayaan, ISRO and whole scientists, this achievement happened because of them...", Sinha said on the successful landing of ISRO's third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3.
On Wednesday, Indians across the globe were glued to television screens to witness the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon. Like others, Hrithik also watched the live telecast of India's historic moon mission.
After watching live telecast of moon landing of Vikram lander, President Droupadi Murmu conveyed her congratulatory message to ISRO and everyone associated with Chandrayaan-3 mission.