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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
Mission launch onboard Launch Vehicle Mark 3 from Sriharikota spaceport at 2.35 pm on July 14.
The launch is expected to be delayed by at least 48 hours.
While governments try to tackle international rules, the immediate response to the littering of orbit is coming in large part from the private sector.
Astronauts from the United States and Russia were part of the mission that had lift off from Kennedy Space Center.
For every potentially damaging asteroid spotted, there are millions falling towards the Earth unseen.
The process of orbiting eight other nanosatellites piggybacking is underway and officials of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it would happen smoothly as planned.
The capsule is headed for a wide orbit around the moon and then a return to Earth with a Pacific splashdown in about three weeks.
NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday.
A livestream showed images taken by DART's camera as the cube-shaped 'impactor' vehicle, streaked into the asteroid Dimorphos, about the size of a football stadium.