New Delhi. The launch date of Chandrayaan-3 is near. It is to be launched on July 13 at 2.30 pm. During the preparation for this launch, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) attached Chandrayaan-3 to the rocket carrying it into space. The payload fairing was attached to the Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle GSLV Mk at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.

Chandrayaan-3 mission is scheduled to be launched on 13 July. It will explore the geology of the Moon, Earth’s only natural satellite. The 3,900 kg spacecraft was first inserted into the payload fairing of the rocket at the UR Rao Satellite Center and then moved to attach it to the bottom of the rocket. This part will push it outside the Earth’s orbit and take it toward the Moon, about 3,84,000 kilometers away from the Earth.

ISRO chief S Somnath recently announced, ‘We will be able to do a soft landing on the moon. July 13 is the first possible launch day and it may go up to July 19. Earlier, Somnath had said that the period between July 12 and July 19 has been fixed for the launch. The payload fairing mounted on the top of the rocket houses the lander, rover along with the propulsion module, which will propel it to an altitude of 100 kilometers above the Moon before separating.

Indian space agency ISRO has said that the lander will have the capability to perform a soft landing at a designated lunar site and deploy a rover that will perform in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface during its mobility. This ambitious mission will be the third attempt after two missions of Chandrayaan. Chandrayaan-2 crashed on the lunar surface four years ago in 2019. The Chandrayaan-3 mission will explore the south-polar region of the Moon and attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface, making India the fourth country in the world to reach that milestone.