Chandrayaan-3 makes history on YouTube, becomes world’s most viewed live-stream
By Lokmat English Desk | Published: August 24, 2023 06:18 PM2023-08-24T18:18:24+5:302023-08-24T18:18:24+5:30
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India scripted history on Wednesday as ISRO's ambitious Chandrayaan-3 landed successfully on the lunar surface.
India became only the fourth country to accomplish the feat, and the first to reach the uncharted south pole of Earth's only natural satellite.
Along with this, the Chandrayaan-3 live stream on YouTube also made history as it reportedly became the most viewed live stream in the world.
More than eight million concurrent users watched the live stream on ISRO's YouTube channel when the Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module was about to make its landing on the moon.
According to a report in sacnilk.com, ISRO broke the record of the stream titled "Full Match: Brazil vs. South Korea | Round of 16 | 2022 World Cup" which had 5,204,794 peak concurrent viewers.
According to another report in Stream Charts, the Brazilian creator's YouTube channel CazéTV had around 6.15 million peak viewers.
Chandrayaan-3 mission's Lander Module which touched down on the lunar surface, has rolled out the rover, Pragyan, with ISRO saying "India took a walk on the moon".
"Chandrayaan-3 ROVER: Made in India--Made for the Moon! The Ch-3 Rover ramped down from the lander and India took a walk on the moon!," it said.
The Chandrayaan-3 Mission took the top spot in terms of peak concurrent viewers, beating the Brazil vs Croatia football match from the FIFA World Cup 2022 that had 61 lakh PCVs and the the Brazil vs South Korea football match from the same tournament with 52 lakh PCVs.
ISRO also beat Cariocão 2023 Serie A semi-final between Vasco da Gama and Flamengo with 47 lakh PCVs.
The top names in the list include Crew Demo-2 by SpaceX (40 lakh), the K-pop sensation BTS's 'Butter' Official MV (37 lakh) and Johnny Depp v Amber Heard Defamation Trial (35 lakh).
