Chandrayaan 3 Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) M4 rocket lifts off successfully from the launch pad of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Friday July 14 2023.
The mission is a follow-up to the unsuccessful Chandrayaan-2 mission in 2019, after which the Vikram lander crashed onto the surface of the moon.
A 3,895 kg payload, including the spacecraft was lifted into space by the LVM3 rocket that was launched exactly at 14:35:17 (IST) and followed a trajectory that roughly corresponded to the stages of the Chandrayaan-3
S. Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization said Chandrayaan-3 is expected a robotic soft landing on the moon's surface might be conceivable On August 23.
The propulsion module successfully detached from the rocket sixteen minutes after launch and started an elliptical orbit of the earth travelling 170 km in front of it and 36,000 km behind it on its way to the lunar orbit.
Only three countries including the United States of America, Russia, and China have succeeded in soft landings on the moon so far.
The US Space agency NASA and The European Space agency ESA congratulated India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft for successfully on a historic movement to the far side of the moon.