Chandrayaan-2: India set to re-attempt Moon mission launch

[nitpicker]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49032603

Chandrayaan-2: India set to re-attempt Moon mission launch

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India is set to re-attempt the launch of its second lunar mission a week after it halted the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag.

Chandrayaan-2 will be launched at 14:43 local time (09:13 GMT) on Monday, space agency Isro said.

It added the spacecraft was ready "to take a billion dreams to the Moon - now stronger than ever before".

The space agency hopes the $150m (£120m) mission will be the first to land on the Moon's south pole.
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[nitpicker]

1. Liftoff

https://www.news18.com/news/india/chandrayaan-2-launch-moon-mission-isro-live-less-than-two-hours-to-go-for-indias-second-date-with-the-moon-2240201.html

Chandrayaan-2 Launch LIVE: We Have Lift-off! ISRO Over the Moon as Lunar Probe Roars Into Space
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[customerserviceguy]

4. Glad that tech support could finally help them resolve the issue. n/t

[nitpicker]

2. More from BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49032603

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The spacecraft weighs 2.379kg (5.244lb) and has three distinct parts: an orbiter, a lander and a rover.

The orbiter, which has a mission life of a year, will take images of the lunar surface, and "sniff" the tenuous atmosphere.

The lander (named Vikram, after the founder of Isro) weighs about half as much, and carries within its belly a 27kg Moon rover with instruments to analyse the lunar soil. In its 14-day life, the rover (called Pragyan - wisdom in Sanskrit) can travel up to a half a kilometre from the lander and will send data and images back to Earth for analysis.
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[MFGsunny]

3. K & R

Felicitations to all @ Isro.

Congratulations. KUDOS.

[Ghost Dog]

5. Good work!