Chandrayaan-2 launch on July 22 at 2.43 pm: ISRO

Days after ISRO’s moon mission was called off due to a technical snag, the space agency Thursday announced that they will proceed with the Chandrayaan-2 launch on July 22 at 2.43 pm.

“Chandrayaan-2 launch, which was called off due to a technical snag on July 15, 2019, is now rescheduled at 2:43 pm IST on Monday, July 22, 2019,” ISRO tweeted.

On July 15, ISRO’s ambitious mission to land a spacecraft on the moon was called off less than an hour before the launch. A technical snag was detected in the GSLV-MkIII rocket, ISRO’s most powerful rocket built to carry heavier payloads.

While ISRO did not specify it, there were indications that the problem was detected in the upper stage of the rocket carrying the cryogenic engine where liquid hydrogen fuel had been filled less than half an hour earlier.