Chandrayaan-3, the latest attempt by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to land a robotic rover on the surface of the moon, successfully lifted off on schedule at 2:35pm local time from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on the country’s east coast.
The launch comes three years after a previous effort to explore the surface of the Moon ended in failure.
If the mission is successful, India would become just the fourth country to have achieved a soft landing on the surface of the Moon, joining the United States, the Soviet Union and China. The lander is expected to reach the Moon on August 23 or 24.
“Chandrayaan-3 has started its journey,” ISRO chairman Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said on Friday following the launch, which was viewed online by more than 1.4 million people, Reuters said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on social media ahead of the launch that the mission “will carry the hopes and dreams of our nation.” It is the first major mission since Modi’s government announced a drive to secure investment from private companies to boost New Delhi’s aerospace ambitions earlier this year.
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