With days left for Chandrayaan-3 mission launch, spacecraft ‘mated with rocket' - Times of India
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NEW DELHI: With just days left for the scheduled launch of India’s third Moon mission “any day after July 12”, Isro said on Wednesday that the “encapsulated assembly containing Chandrayaan-3 is mated with the LVM3 '' rocket. Isro is looking at launching the lunarcraft in the July 12-19 window and will make a second attempt at soft-landing on the south pole side of Moon, which, if successful, will put India in the elite club of three nations (US, Russia and China) with moon-landing capability. If the spacecraft is launched successfully next week, it will travel towards the Moon for over a month covering a distance of about 3.84 lakh km and will attempt a safe landing on the south pole side around August 23. Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2. Unlike its predecessor, which carried an orbiter along with Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, Chandrayaan-3 is a composite of three modules: propulsion, lander and rover. The total weight of the spacecraft