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Laser Communication with Chandrayaan-3 Lander
February 3 , 2024
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- A NASA spacecraft has successfully pinged India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander on the moon.
- A laser beam was transmitted and reflected between its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Vikram lander for the first time on the lunar surface.
- This successful experiment opens the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the moon’s surface.
- NASA’s LRO pointed its laser altimeter instrument toward Vikram.
- The lander was 62 miles, or 100 kilometers, away from LRO, near Manzinus crater in the moon’s south pole region, when LRO transmitted laser pulses toward it.
- The Vikram lander landed in the lunar south pole region on August 23, 2023.
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