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With Sunday's success, ISRO put behind the anomaly experienced in its August 7 Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) mission, that had then made the satellites unusable.
In a giant leap for the country's ambitious low-cost space programme, ISRO has undertaken the most complex and its prestigious mission ever aimed at landing the rover on the moon.
According to retired ISRO officials, there should be proper pressure in the liquid fuel tanks so that there is continuous flow of fuel to the combustion chamber.
Billed as the most complex and prestigious mission undertaken by the ISRO since its inception, Chandrayaan-2 will make India the fourth country to soft-land a rover on the lunar surface after Russia, the United States and China.
The launch comes a week after the first attempt for lift-off was aborted due to a technical snag.
In a giant leap for the country's ambitious low-cost space programme, ISRO's most powerful three-stage rocket GSLV-MkIII-M1 had launched the spacecraft into the Earth's orbit on July 22 from the spaceport in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
The landing module, Vikram, is expected to touch down on the lunar surface on September 7.
As Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram is set to go solo post-separation on Monday, wishes are pouring in for the space agency from across the globe.
The 3,850-kg Chandrayaan-2, a three-module spacecraft comprising orbiter, lander and rover, which was launched on July 22, would make a landing on the moon on September 7.
According to ISRO, Chandrayaan2 India's second lunar expedition will shed light on a completely unexplored region of the Moon, it's South Pole.
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