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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by mkl on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:20AM (#37234730)
It's a big deal because India has never landed on the moon before; only three nations have.
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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by goku12 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:48AM (#37235005)
This is the first time India soft-landed anything outside of Earth. That by itself is a big deal. Soft-landing guidance on a body without atmosphere is much more complex than launch guidance.
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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by rospaya on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:08AM (#37236153)
> With this mission, India became the first to impact the Lunar south pole and the 7th nation to reach the lunar surface.

Wiki article for Chandrayaan-1 from 2008.

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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by mkl on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:28AM (#37236506)
India became the 4th to land successfully with Chandrayaan-3 just now. Others have crashed or deliberately impacted.
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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by goku12 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:48AM (#37236905)
Impactors and landers are classified differently. So both your comment and the one you were replying to are correct.
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