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If the Chandrayaan-3 mission — slated for launch on Friday, July 14 — goes as planned, it will place India in the elite club of four nations that have set their footprints on the lunar surface by landing a space vehicle.
Built on a budget of just under $75 million, the Chandrayaan-3 is set to blast off from India's main spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 2:35 pm local time
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Mission launch onboard Launch Vehicle Mark 3 from Sriharikota spaceport at 2.35 pm on July 14.
Chandrayaan-3 will be launched by the Launch Vehicle Mark-III from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota and this is scheduled for July 13 at 2:30 pm, according to the officials.
The Manzinus model is named after the Manzinus crater the planned landing site of the Chandrayaan-2 mission; the Earthshine model is inspired by the faint-brown glow that appears with the crescent moon.
The lift off of the 43.5 metre tall rocket was at 9 am from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, about 135 km from Chennai.
According to ISRO, the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully underwent EMI/EMC test during January 31-February 2 at the UR Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.
The objective of Gaganyaan programme is to demonstrate the capability to send humans to low earth orbit (LEO) onboard an Indian rocket and bring them back to earth safely.
Both the orbiters orbit the moon in a nearly polar orbit and hence, both the spacecraft come close to each other over the Lunar poles.