Chandrayaan-2 - Moon Chariot 2 - took off as scheduled at 2:43pm local time from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, an island off the coast of southern Andhra Pradesh state. INDIA SCRIPTS HISTORY! CONGRATULATIONS, @isro! India's second moon mission #Chandrayaan2 launched successfully from Sriharikota pic.twitter.com/aDrJf9AC9v — Pratap Simha (@mepratap) July 22, 2019The launch came a week after a fuel leak forced the previous attempt to be scrubbed. The South Asian nation is bidding to become just the fourth nation - after Russia, the United States and China - to land a spacecraft on the Moon.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 22, 2019 09:03 UTC