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| India calls off Chandrayaan 2 lunar mission due to ‘technical snag’ less than an hour before launch | India calls off Chandrayaan 2 lunar mission due to ‘technical snag’ less than an hour before launch |
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| India’s mission to the unexplored regions of the Moon, Chandrayaan 2, was postponed as a precaution due to a technical glitch 56 minutes before the launch. The country’s space agency will announced the revised launch date later. | India’s mission to the unexplored regions of the Moon, Chandrayaan 2, was postponed as a precaution due to a technical glitch 56 minutes before the launch. The country’s space agency will announced the revised launch date later. |
| No additional details about the problem or the new date of the launch have yet been revealed by the Indian Space Research Organization. | No additional details about the problem or the new date of the launch have yet been revealed by the Indian Space Research Organization. |
| It was planned that Chandrayaan 2 would blast into space from the Sriharikota launch site on the coast of the Bay of Bengal at 02:51 local time on July 15 (21:21 GMT July 14). | |
| The ambitious space project, which ISRO head Kailasavadivoo Sivan called “the most complex mission” his agency has “ever undertaken,” includes an orbiter, a lander, and a rover, as well as an array of scientific instruments. It would make India the fourth country to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon, after the US, Russia, and China. | |
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