new delhi isro on friday successfully launched the lvm3 in its fourth operational mission and put the chandrayaan3 spacecraft into the intended orbitif all goes as per plan the chandrayaan3 lander vikram should touch down on the lunar surface at around 547pm on august 23 after 40 days of journey covering more than 38lakhkmthe mission has been a culmination of years of research and development by hundreds of scientists working around the clock read alsochandrayaan3 isros third lunar mission successfully launched into orbitisro on friday successfully launched the lvm3 in its fourth operational mission and put the chandrayaan3 spacecraft into the intended orbit if all goes as per plan the chandrayaan3 lander vikram should touch down on the lunar surface at around 547pm on august 23 after 40 days of journeyisro launches chandrayaan3 from sriharikota key pointsnew delhi the indian space research organisation isro launched its third lunar missionchandrayaan 3 onboard the heavylift lvm3m4 rocket from sriharikota at the end of the 2530 hour countdown the lvm3m4 rocket the largest and heaviest in its class and dubbed as fat boy lifted offhere are the details of some of the key figures behind the mission and what they said after chandrayaan3 was placed in orbitisro chairman s somanaththe isro chief is considered the brains behind the ambitious mission to the moon he has also been credited with fasttracking many other mission including gaganyaan crewed mission and adityal1 mission to the sun shortly after chandrayaan3 was safely place in orbit somanath said congratulations india chandrayaan3 in its precise orbit has begun its journey to the moon health of the spacecraft is normal let us wish all the best for the chandrayaan3 craft to make its further orbit raising manoeuvres and travel towards the moon in the coming daysbefore being given the responsibility to head indias space agency somanath served as the director of the vikram sarabhai space centre vssc and the liquid propulsion systems centre the primary centres for development of rocket technologies for isro chandrayaan3 project director p veeramuthuvelp veeramuthuvel took charge as chandrayaan3 project director in 2019 before his current assignment he served as a deputy director in the space infrastructure programme office at the isro headquarters known for his technical acumen veeramuthuvel played a key role in chandrayaan2 mission as well being the point person for its negotiations with national aeronautics and space administration nasa a native of villupuram in tamil nadu veeramuthuvel is an alumni of indian institute of technology in madras iitmvery happy to note that chandrayaan3 has been injected into a safe orbit congratulations and thanks to lvm3 team all our spacecraft health parametres are normal including the power generation in both propulsion and lander modules our journey to the moon has begun now we will be closely monitoring and controlling the craft from isro telemetry tracking and command network in bengalurumission director mohana kumarthe mission director for lvm3m4chandrayaan 3 is s mohana kumar a senior scientists from the vikram sarabhai space centre he