{"id":3267,"date":"2019-07-15T06:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/15\/india-calls-off-moon-mission-minutes-before-launch-liftoff-cancel-chandrayaan-2"},"modified":"2019-07-15T06:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:58:51","slug":"indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-called-off-minutes-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Chandrayaan-2  moon mission called off minutes before launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nation\u2019s first attempt at a landing on the moon put on hold due to \u2018technical snag\u2019<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s moon mission, destined for the uncharted south pole, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/jul\/11\/spacewatch-india-prepares-to-launch-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission\">put on hold<\/a> less than an hour before take off, following a technical glitch.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, which was scheduled to launch at 02:51 local time from Sriharikota space centre, north of Chennai, is India\u2019s most ambitious to date.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/15\/india-calls-off-moon-mission-minutes-before-launch-liftoff-cancel-chandrayaan-2\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation\u2019s first attempt at a landing on the moon put on hold due to \u2018technical snag\u2019India\u2019s moon mission, destined for the uncharted south pole, has been put on hold less than an hour before take off, following a technical glitch.The mission, which was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,299,61,297,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-space","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}