India’s third moon mission to be launched in July

Chandrayaan-2 took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 22 (Photo: Twitter/Isro). Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.

NEW DELHI, May 22, 2023, Xinhua. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath on Monday said the country’s third moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, will be launched in July this year, Xinhua agency reported.

Somanath made the remarks after the successful launch of the second-generation navigation satellite NSV-01 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, off the Bay of Bengal coast in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. (India-Space-Moon mission)