If Chandrayaan-3 succeeds, India will be the first country to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.
Indian Space Research Agency says in a press release that it has been monitoring Chandrayaan-3's "health" and that it's "normal".
Chandrayaan-2 - which also comprised an orbiter, a lander and a rover - was launched in July 2019 but it was only partially successful. Its orbiter continues to circle and study the Moon even today, but the lander-rover failed to make a soft landing and crashed during touchdown. "A series of manoeuvres have been planned to gradually reduce the spacecraft's orbit and position it over the lunar poles," says Isro.
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