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In a matter of less than 48 hours, India's much-anticipated lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, is set to attempt a historic landing on the Moon's surface. The scheduled touchdown is slated for Wednesday at 6:04 pm
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday evening successfully injected the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft into the lunar orbit, an official said.
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India may be sending spacecraft to orbit the Moon and Mars, and plans to send one to study the Sun and Venus, and finally, humans to space in the last four decades of this century, but its presence in the global space sector market is a mere two-three per cent.
Aditya-L1 is named after the Hindu Sun god and the spacecraft's future home, and L1 -- the first Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun system
The object, which measures around 2.5 meters in width and 2.5 to 3 meters in length, was found with barnacles and marine life attached to it.