With Chandrayaan-3, India aims to be the first to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.
India has launched its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.
"Chandrayaan-3 has begun its journey towards the Moon," Indian Space Research Organisation chief Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said in his first comments following the successful lift off. "Our launch vehicle has put the Chandrayaan on the precise orbit around the Earth." Isro tweeted that "the health of the spacecraft is normal".Chandrayaan-3 had "scripted a new chapter in India's space odyssey".
Mr Somanath has said they have carefully studied the data from the last crash and carried out simulation exercises to fix the glitches. If all goes to plan, the six-wheeled rover will then eject and roam around the rocks and craters on Moon's surface, gathering crucial data and images to be sent back to Earth for analysis.
"The orbiter from Chandrayaan-2 has been providing lots of very high-resolution images of the spot where we want to land and that data has been well studied so we know how many boulders and craters are there and we have widened the domain of landing for a better possibility."
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