Pragyan, Vikram, Vikas.. One of the names given by isro to India's Chandrayaan-3 mission is special. isro is giving priority to sanskrit, one of the oldest languages of the world, in its projects. Today, india is celebrating ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 success on a grand scale, having touched the moon with truly indigenous technology. india holds the distinction of being the first country in the world to soft land a spacecraft on the South Pole of the Moon. India's achievement is being widely praised across the world. This discovery proves that space exploration can be done at very low cost. With that, india is an inspiration to global nations eyeing the moon for future missions. All this together, it is clear that along with this historic effort, india is also striving for the revival of sanskrit, one of the world's oldest languages, through these projects. Many components of Chandrayaan-3 are named in this language rooted in Hinduism. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is a sanskrit word for "mooncraft" (chandra meaning "moon"; yan meaning "craft" or "vehicle"), an apt title for the Chandrasekhana mission. The six-wheeled rover that is now on its way to the moon is named Pragyan with the aim of analyzing the lunar soil. The word is of sanskrit origin and means "wisdom".
"Indian literature written in sanskrit is very rich in its original and philosophical form. It is also important in its scientific form," Sridhara Somnath, president of the indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), said in an interview earlier this year. He said that it was ideally suited to the structure of ancient language and to convey basic "scientific ideas and processes". Chandrayaan-3's lander has been named Vikram. It is a sanskrit name meaning bravery. It also honors late vikram Sarabhai, the father of the indian space programme. Sarabhai, who was the first chairman of isro, established the country's first physics laboratory in november 1947. It was the first laboratory of independent India. The PRL was established three months after the country achieved its long-awaited independence from british rule.
Based in Ahmedabad, india, modern scientists with PRL have developed materials for the latest Chandrayaan-3 mission. The same organization created the spectrometer installed on the Pragyan rover. isro named the main stage of the three-stage rocket that carried the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into orbit as Vikas in Sanskrit. Vikas, the name given to the liquid fuel rocket, is also said to be vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, the full name of vikram Sarabhai.
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