ISRO's Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) M4 rocket carrying Chandrayaan-3 lifts off from the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, PTI
New Delhi, August 1
"Next stop: the Moon", an elated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) tweeted on Tuesday morning after successfully placing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into the lunar transfer trajectory.
"Chandrayaan-3 completes its orbit around the earth and heads towards the moon," the space agency said.
"A successful perigee-firing performed at ISTRAC, ISRO has injected the spacecraft into the translunar orbit", ISRO said.
The Lunar-Orbit Insertion (LOI) is planned for August 5.
Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar mission, was lifted off from the spaceport at Sriharikota on July 14 by a GSLV rocket.
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