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The success of Chandrayaan 3 would see India enter an elite club of nations achieving such a feat, the others being the United States, China and the former Soviet Union.
Important components of the modules of India’s ambitious second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, to be launched on Monday, have been manufactured by a Union government-run centre.
The landing on the moon near the South Pole, an uncharted territory so far, would be on September 6 or 7. During the mission, scientists will analyse minerals, map the moon’s surface and search for water.
In a bid to add another feather in its cap, India is waiting eagerly for its second lunar mission, reportedly aiming at landing a rover near the unexplored south pole of the moon. If launched successfully, the $141 million (Rs 603 crore) Chandrayaan-2 mission will certainly solidify India's place among spacefaring nations across the globe.
With launch of Chandrayaan-2, India’s second mission to the moon, is just a few days away, engineers at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have already integrated the GSLV MK-III vehicle with the encapsulated assembly of the much-awaited lunar mission, scheduled to take off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota at about 2:15 am on July 15, 2019.