India’’s first lunar mission blasts off
SRIHARIKOTA: India’’s first lunar mission blasted off from the national space centre on the southeastern coast early Wednesday.
The unmanned lunar orbiting spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 was launched with an Indian-built rocket at 6:22 am (0052 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Chennai.
The Chandrayaan-1 is being sent on a two-year orbital mission to provide a detailed map of the mineral, chemical and topographical characteristics of the moon’’s surface, at a cost of 80 million dollars.
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