Watch! ISRO launches third moon mission ‘Chandrayaan-3’ from Sriharikota

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched India’s third lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-3 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota at 2.35 pm. Chandrayaan-3 is ISRO's follow-up attempt after the Chandrayaan-2 mission faced challenges during its soft landing on the lunar surface in 2019 and was eventually deemed to have failed its mission objectives. Chandrayaan-3 is equipped with a lander, a rover and a propulsion module. It weighs around 3,900 kilograms. The ISRO's third lunar exploration mission is equipped with eight payloads. The experiments to be carried out by Chandrayan 3 include the Vikram lander (named after Space scientist Vikram Sarabhai) which will carry 4 instruments, Pragyan (Saanskrit for Wisdom) rover will carry two instruments and Propulsion Module or the Orbiter will carry one experiment