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SRIHARIKOTA, 14 Jul:<\/strong> The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its third lunar mission – Chandrayaan 3 – onboard the heavy-lift LVM3-M4 rocket here in Andhra Pradesh on Friday.<\/p>\n At the end of the 25.30 hour countdown, the LVM3-M4 rocket, the largest and heaviest in its class and dubbed ‘Fat Boy’, lifted off majestically at a prefixed time at 2:35 pm from the second launch pad, discharging thick plumes of smoke.<\/p>\n Thousands of spectators who had converged to witness the historic launch cheered the rocket as it made its ascent into the skies.<\/p>\n With the Chandrayaan-3 mission, scientists are aiming at mastering soft-landing on the lunar surface, a challenging technical aspect which is planned for late August. A successful mission would make India only the fourth country to achieve the rare feat after the United States, China and the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n Chandrayaan-3 follows the Chandrayaan-2 mission which did not achieve the desired soft landing on the surface of the moon in 2019, disappointing the scientists.<\/p>\n After reaching the desired altitude, the lander module would begin its descent for a soft landing on the south pole region of the moon, and this action is expected to take place on 23 or 24 August, scientists at the ISRO said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SRIHARIKOTA, 14 Jul: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its third lunar mission – Chandrayaan 3 – onboard the heavy-lift LVM3-M4 rocket here in Andhra Pradesh on Friday. At the end of the 25.30 hour countdown, the LVM3-M4 rocket, the largest and heaviest in its class and dubbed ‘Fat Boy’, lifted off majestically at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}