The Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter, lander and rover launch into space atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III-M1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan ...

India’s second Lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 lifted off as scheduled at 2.43 p.m. on Monday. The satellite was successfully placed into Earth orbit by GSLV-MkIII-M1, says ISRO. Follow our ...

which will help slingshot the satellite towards the Moon. India does not have a rocket powerful enough to hurl Chandrayaan-2 on a direct path. In comparison, the Saturn V rocket used by the Apollo ...

The Chandrayaan-2, which weighs 3.8 tons and carries 13 payloads ... in what it claimed was an anti-satellite test, making it one of four countries to have achieved that feat.

Coincidentally, Chandrayaan-2 is also launching just days before the ... which is called the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III. This is a three-stage vehicle billed as India's ...

The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, launched in 2019 ... a collision avoidance manoeuvre was also carried out to protect the Cartosat-2A satellite from a close approach with a rocket body (SL-14).

The plan was to launch the mission, called Chandrayaan-2, at 2:51 a.m. Monday ... a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle — Mark III, which has successfully launched at least two times.

but will also try to find possibilities of sustaining human life on Earth’s natural satellite with an aim to colonising it. Chandrayaan-2 is likely to look for a large cave that could serve as a ...

"Built at the U R Rao Satellite Centre of ISRO in Bengaluru ... "The new findings from Chandrayaan-2 provide an avenue to study surface-exosphere interaction on the moon, which would aid ...

Approximately 16 minutes after liftoff, Chandrayaan-2 separated from a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle — Mark III, India’s most powerful rocket, and headed into Earth orbit.