Chandrayaan-3 To Lift Off Today For 6-Week Journey To Moon: Live Updates

New Delhi:

Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar exploration mission, will make India the fourth country to land its spacecraft on the surface of the moon and demonstrate the country’s ability for safe and soft landing on the lunar surface.

The countdown for the launch of the mission began on Thursday at 14:35:17 IST ahead of take-off on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The spacecraft will be launched on a GSLV Mark 3 (LVM 3) heavy-lift launch vehicle.

This will be Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) follow-up attempt after the Chandrayaan-2 mission faced challenges during its soft landing in 2019.

Here are the LIVE Updates on Chandrayaan-3 launch:

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• India’s Chandrayaan-3 will lift off at 2.35 pm today from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the hopes of an entire nation. A successful mission will make India the fourth nation to land on moon.
• The moon lander Vikram will be perched on a GSLV Mark 3 heavy lift launch vehicle — dubbed the Bahubali rocket.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation is keeping its fingers crossed, after its last moon mission in July 2019 went awry.