India's latest space mission enters the Moon's orbit ahead of the country's second attempted lunar landing, as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights
The chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation says his engineers carefully studied data from the last failed mission four years ago and tried their best to fix the glitches. / Photo: Reuters
The Indian Space Research Organisation confirmed on Saturday that Chandrayaan-3, which means"Mooncraft" in Sanskrit, had been"successfully inserted into the lunar orbit", more than three weeks after its launch. India's last attempt to do so ended in failure four years ago, when ground control lost contact moments before landing.
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