Chandrayaan-3 landing: How to watch the historic lunar landing at home or office

India’s very own space agency, ISRO, is set for the next major step in the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission – landing the spacecraft on the moon. The landing is expected to take place today, on August 23, 2023 at 6:08PM IST. The maneuver, which is expected to take a total time of 15 minutes as the spacecraft descends on the Moon’s southern polar area, will kick off from an elevation of 25 kilometers above the lunar surface.

Should the landing go as planned, Chandrayaan-3 will be the world’s first successful lunar landing on the Moon’s south pole. Thanks to technology, you will be able to catch the lunar landing live from the comfort of your home, office or pretty much anywhere else. Here’s how.

How to watch Chandrayaan-3 landing live

ISRO will be broadcasting the landing live for the world on its official website as well as its social media handles. These include ISRO’s YouTube channel. Beginning 5:20PM today, you can simply click on the embedded YouTube video below to stream the landing live on a device of your choice like a smartphone, a laptop or your television.

Prefer watching the landing on your television without YouTube? You can also stream the landing live on the DD National TV channel.

Chandrayaan-3: What to know ahead of the landing

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission is the most recent lunar exploration mission under the space agency’s Chandrayaan programme. The unmanned mission is the direct successor to 2019’s Chandrayaan-2, another unmanned lunar mission, where a last-minute technical glitch led to the spacecraft’s lander crashing into the lunar surface, losing all contact with mission control.

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The objectives of Chandrayaan-3 include getting the lander to safely land on the Moon, observe the rover’s loitering capabilities over the lunar surface, and conducting experiments to better understand the lunar surface composition.

Other lunar missions in recent history, including the Russian Luna-25 have ended in failure due to glitches during a pre-landing procedure above the surface of the Moon, proving just how difficult it is to get a spacecraft to land on the lunar surface, especially remotely.