Chandrayaan-3 mission aims to land a robotic rover on the moon's south pole, unveiling potential water ice deposits and paving the way for future space station endeavours.
The Prime Minister Tweeting also urged the people to know more about this mission and ‘the strides India had made in the space sector, science and innovation’.
If everything goes to plan, India will become only the fourth country in the world to soft-land a rover on the moon’s surface after the US, China and former Soviet Russia.
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 p.m. local time.
On 14 July, ISRO’s third moon mission will be launched from Sriharikota. Merely a tech demonstrator aimed at test landing and roving capabilities, it doesn’t carry sophisticated payloads
The Covid lockdown has hit several projects of the ISRO including Chandrayaan-3, which was scheduled to be launched in late 2020, and Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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