New Delhi, August 20: India’s second moon mission module – Chandrayaan2, has begun orbiting the Moon, around a month after it blasted off, the officials have confirmed the report.
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Today (August 20, 2019) after the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI), #Chandrayaan2 is now in Lunar orbit. Lander Vikram will soft land on Moon on September 7, 2019 pic.twitter.com/6mS84pP6RD— ISRO (@isro) August 20, 2019
The process to put the lunar module into the orbit was completely done at 09:02 local time (04:32 GMT) on Tuesday, according to BBC.
New Delhi hopes the $145m (£116m) moon mission will be the first-ever mission to land on the south pole of the moon.
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Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) of #Chandrayaan2 maneuver was completed successfully today (August 20, 2019). The duration of maneuver was 1738 seconds beginning from 0902 hrs ISTFor more details visit https://t.co/FokCl5pDXg
— ISRO (@isro) August 20, 2019
India’s moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, was set off from the Satish Dhawan Space centre in Andhra Pradesh‘s district of Nellore at Sriharikota, by ISRO.
Setting in place India’s bid to return to the moon, the Indian space agency’s heavy-lift rocket, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III), carrying the 3,850 kg Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, blasted off on July 22 afternoon, according to reports.
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