{"id":4285,"date":"2019-07-22T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/22\/indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-lifts-off-a-week-after-aborted-launch"},"modified":"2019-07-22T19:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:30:02","slug":"indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-lifts-off-a-week-after-aborted-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4285","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Chandrayaan-2 moon mission lifts off a week after aborted launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With first mission to land on lunar south pole, India aims to join club comprising Russia, US and China<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s mission to the moon has blasted into space one week after a technical glitch forced scientists to abruptly halt its scheduled launch.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands gathered to watch Chandrayaan-2 take off at 2.43pm local time (0913 GMT) on Monday from Satish Dhawan space centre in Sriharikota, north of Chennai. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/22\/indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-lifts-off-a-week-after-aborted-launch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With first mission to land on lunar south pole, India aims to join club comprising Russia, US and ChinaIndia\u2019s mission to the moon has blasted into space one week after a technical glitch forced scientists to abruptly halt its scheduled launch.Thousand&#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-4285","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"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","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=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}