India’s sleepless night went in vein while ISRO announced its Mars MissionChandrayan2’s lifting off has been put on hold.
It was scheduled to lift off at 2.51 am on 15 July from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota and was scheduled to land in Moon surface on 6th September, 2019.
Guru Prasad, the ISRO PRO tweeted wait for sometimes for announcement.
A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at 1 hour before the launch. As a measure of abundant precaution, #Chandrayaan2 launch has been called off for today. Revised launch date will be announced later.
— ISRO (@isro) July 14, 2019
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— ISRO (@isro) July 14, 2019
On Sunday when pan India was busy to enjoy the Cricket and Wimbledon final, the agency was busy to prepare for the mission. India’s Space Agency, ISRO on Sunday had started 20 hour countdown for Chandrayan-2at 6.15 am, which is another prestigious and complex unmanned space mission of the agency after ‘MOM’.
After rescheduling of lifting off, Chandrayan II will take a cycle of 54 days to land on Moon’s south pole where no country has ever sent its mission.
During the20 hours, the rocket and spacecraft’s system has under gone multiple check and fuel was filled to power the rocket engines.
After the ten seconds countdown, GSLV MK III were to lift off at 2.51 am from Sriharikota. But it didn’t happen.
Till date ISRO has sent up three GSLV Mk III rockets.
From there, Chandrayaan-2 will travel for nearly 3.844 lakh km, carrying lander ‘Vikram’ and rover ‘Pragyaan’ to the moon.
The first lift off was on 18 December, 2014 carrying Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment. The second and third GSLV-Mk III went up on 5 February, 2017 and 14 November, 2018 carrying communication satellites GSAT-19 and GSAT-29 respectively.
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Interestingly, GSLV-Mk III will be used for India’s manned space mission slated in 2022.
The mission is expected to make India the fourth country to soft land on the lunar surface after Russia, the United States and China. Chairman K. Sivan told media on Wednesday about the moon mission.
