India launches space mission to far side of the moon
India has launched a spacecraft to the far side of the moon four years after a failed effort to land a rover softly on the lunar surface.
Chandrayaan-3, meaning"moon craft" in Sanskrit, blasted off from a launch pad on the south-eastern island of Sriharikota with an orbiter, a lander and a rover.The spacecraft was cheered on by those within mission control at Satish Dhawan Space Centre and by thousands of people gathered outside who waved India's flag.
"Congratulations India. Chandrayaan-3 has started its journey towards moon," the director of the India Space Research Organisation Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said shortly after the launch. "Chandrayaan-3 scripts a new chapter in India's space odyssey. It soars high, elevating the dreams and ambitions of every Indian," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet after the launch.
A successful landing on the moon would make India the fourth country - after the US, the Soviet Union and China - to achieve the feat., which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enablecookies or to allow those cookies just once.
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