India's space agency launched a rocket on Friday that sent a spacecraft into orbit and toward a planned landing next month on the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India's position as a major space power.
The Indian Space Research Organisation's LVM3 launch rocket blasted off from the country's main spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Friday afternoon, leaving behind a plume of smoke and fire.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft would also be the first to land at the lunar south pole, an area of special interest for space agencies and private space companies because of the presence of water ice that could support a future space station. Chandrayaan, which means "moon vehicle" in Sanskrit, includes a 2-metre--tall lander designed to deploy a rover near the moon's south pole, where it is expected to remain functional for two weeks running a series of experiments.The launch is India's first major mission since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government announcedModi had earlier said on Twitter that the moon mission "will carry the hopes and dreams of our nation".
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