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India launches moon mission: Unmanned rover Chandrayaan-2 takes off successfully
India launches its second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to check into the unchartered Lunar South pole. The launch happened from India’s most powerful rocket GSLV-Mk0III-M1 M1 from Sriharikota today, a week after the lift-off was aborted due to a technical snag, as reported by News18.
Special moments that will be etched in the annals of our glorious history!
The launch of #Chandrayaan2 illustrates the prowess of our scientists and the determination of 130 crore Indians to scale new frontiers of science.
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— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 22, 2019
The Rs 978 crore mission, which was rescheduled after scientists corrected the glitch in the rocket, was launched at 2.43pm from the second launchpad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, over 100km from Chennai.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists, who aborted the previous launch with 56 minutes left for the countdown to end on July 15, have taken quick remedial action based on an analysis carried out by a team set up to look into the snag and announced the rescheduled launch three days ago.
A 20-hour countdown for the launch began at 6.43pm Sunday, ISRO announced.
