Chandrayaan-3 first Fly-by event takes place after spacecraft enters Moon SOI

Chennai, Nov. 13 -- With the Chandryaaan-3 mission spacecraft, which was revolving in theOrbit under the influence of Earth's and Moon's gravity fields, has entered the Moon Sphere ofInfluence (SOI) after which the first Lunar flyby event took place, ISRO said tonight, garneringvaluable insights and experience from mission planning, operations, flight dynamics perspectives,and especially enhanced the understanding of disturbance torques effects.

In an update, it said Chandrayaan-3 (CH-3) mission is to demonstrate safe and soft landing onLunar Surface, demonstrate Rover roving on the Moon and conduct in-situ experiments.

CH-3 mission consisted the Lander Module, Propulsion Module and a Rover.

The satellite was successfully launched on-boa...