Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander successfully separates from spacecraft: 'India soon be browsing lunar surface'

Bengaluru: India will soon be browsing the surface of the moon, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.

"I am very pleased today that the Chandrayaan 3 has completed the separation phase successfully, and I hope that we will soon be browsing the surface of the moon," he said on the sidelines of the G20 DIA Summit here on Thursday.

The Union Minister made these comments when he was asked about the successful separation of both the lander (Vikram) and propulsion modules of Chandrayan-3 mission. The separation has taken the Chandrayaan-3 mission closer to its key milestone of soft-landing on the surface of the moon's south pole.

Chandrasekhar stated that Chandrayan's journey as a programme has been extremely good that makes every Indian proud. "India has certainly demonstrated to the world that ISRO and its ecosystem are among the leading nations in the world in terms of these types of capabilities," he said.

The craft had successfully blasted off from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota spaceport, marking the first stage of a complicated 40-day mission that aims to vault the country into an elite club of nations that have successfully landed on the lunar surface. (UNI)