Chandrayaan 3 is set to fly early Friday morning (July 14).
from the island of Sriharikota, on India's east coast. You can watch it here at Space.com when the time comes, courtesy of ISRO.Chandrayaan 3 will send a lander-rover duo toward the moon, with a touchdown targeted for late August near the lunar south pole. Success in that endeavor would be historic: To date, just three nations have soft-landed a spacecraft on the lunar surface.
The Indian lander-rover duo are designed to operate for one lunar day , gathering a variety of data about their environs with a suite of scientific instruments.
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