Ritu Karidhal: Meet the India’s rocket woman leading the Chandrayaan-3

India’s heavy lift rocket-LVM3 carrying the 3,897.89 kg Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft blasted off from the Sriharikota spaceport on Friday afternoon. At about 2.35 p.m. the LVM3 rocket broke free from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC). Ritu Karidhal: Meet the India’s rocket woman leading the Chandrayaan-3.

“It was a very smooth take off. We hope we will be able to achieve the mission totally,” says former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair on the launch of Chandrayaan-3. Leading this important mission is India’s very own rocket woman, Ritu Karidhal Shrivastava.

Ritu Karidhal is an ISRO scientist. She is the mission director of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. She is a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. Ritu Karidhal was also a part of the Mangalyaan mission. She was the deputy director of the Mars mission. Now she is leading the important space mission.

Ritu Karidhal was born and raised in Lucknow. She did MSc from Lucknow University in Physics. She later studied at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She later started working for India’s space agency, ISRO. She is an expert in Aerospace. She is also called the Rocket Woman of India. She has been working with ISRO since 1997.

Ritu Karidhal has received several awards like Young Scientist Award, ISRO team award, ASI team award, Society of India Aerospace Technology and Industries’ Aerospace Woman award etc. Chandrayaan 3 will not carry and orbiter this time. The scientists are sending an indigenous propulsion module. The Rs 615 crore Chandrayaan 3 will complete the journey t0 moon in 50 days. It will land on the southern pole of the moon.

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