India s Chandrayaan 3 mission, set to launch today, will make India the fourth country to safely land a spacecraft on the moon. The mission has the potential to attract investment and boost India s private space sector.
The countdown for the second commercial launch of India's largest rocket LVM3 began at 8:30am on Saturday, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an official at Indian Space Research Organisation told WION.
During the 24-and-a-half-hour countdown, the final health checks of the rocket and satellite systems and fuel filling into the liquid and cryogenic stages of the rocket will be carried out.
India's space agency ISRO will launch 36 satellites in its heaviest rocket on Sunday midnight, heralding its entry into the global commercial satellite launch service market.