{"id":504,"date":"2019-07-23T00:12:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/?p=504"},"modified":"2019-07-23T00:54:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:24:30","slug":"piyush-goyal-greets-isro-its-women-led-team-for-chandrayaan-2-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/piyush-goyal-greets-isro-its-women-led-team-for-chandrayaan-2-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Piyush Goyal greets ISRO, its women-led team for Chandrayaan-2 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi |<\/strong> Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday congratulated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its women-led team for making the ambitious moon mission Chandrayaan-2 launch a reality, bringing India closer to become the fourth country in the world to soft-land a spacecraft on the lunar surface.\u00a0&#8216;Many congratulations to ISRO and its women-led team that made the ambitious moon mission Chandrayaan 2 launch a reality, bringing India closer to become the fourth country in the world to soft-land a spacecraft on the lunar surface,&#8217; Mr Goyal said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a prestigious and challenging second lunar mission, India&#8217;s heaviest rocket GSLV-MkIII-M1, carrying 3,850 kg Chandrayaan-2&#8211;aiming for a soft landing on the Moon South Pole&#8211;lifted off from the Sriharikota Range (SHAR) Range in the afternoon.\u00a0After a 20-hour countdown, the 43.43 m tall rocket, with a lift off mass of 640 tonnes, soared into the skies from the Second Launch Pad at 1443 hrs, belching orange fumes and with a rumble that shook the earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The launch was earlier scheduled on July 15, but was deferred to a technical glitch, which, however, was rectified.\u00a0India&#8217;s first Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-1 was launched using a PSLV on October 22, 2018 and it detected presence of water on the Lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the technical difficulties of landing on the Moon&#8217;s South Polar region have deterred many previous attempts, Chandrayaan-2 will be the first to reach this part of the lunar surface&#8211;taking the Indian tricolour where no human has been before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi | Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday congratulated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its women-led team for making the ambitious moon mission Chandrayaan-2 launch a reality, bringing India closer to become the fourth country in the world to soft-land a spacecraft on the lunar surface.\u00a0&#8216;Many congratulations to ISRO and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[291,292,293,297,296],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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