Chandrayaan-2 launch at 2.43pm on July 22

Highlights

  • Isro is keen on a the earliest available window to give itself the required time to navigate the lunarcraft to Moon’s orbit.
  • On July 15, TOI was the first to report that Isro could look at a revised launch date as early as July 22.
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has announced that the revised launch of Chandrayaan-2 at 2.43pm on Monday, July 22.
TOI had reported first on July 15 that Isro could re-launch as early as July 22. On Wednesday, in its second report, TOI confirmed that the agency is looking at a window as early as on Sunday evening (July 21) or on Monday (July 22) to launch Chandrayaan-2.
Isro is keen on a the earliest available window to give itself the required time to navigate the lunarcraft to Moon’s orbit.
Sources privy to the ongoing rectification process—engineers are working on plugging a faulty joint—told TOI that the space agency will complete rectification soon.

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