{"id":56664,"date":"2023-07-14T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/14\/indian-rocket-chandrayaan-3-blasts-into-space-historic-moon-mission"},"modified":"2023-07-14T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:42:51","slug":"indian-rocket-blasts-into-space-on-historic-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56664","title":{"rendered":"Indian rocket blasts into space on historic moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandrayaan-3 launches from island in southern India in follow-up to failed effort four years ago<\/p>\n<p>An Indian spacecraft has blazed its way towards the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/06\/indias-moon-landing-suffers-last-minute-communications-loss\">failed effort<\/a> nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, India\u2019s space agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Chandrayaan-3, the word for \u201cmoon craft\u201d in Sanskrit, took off from a launch pad in Sriharikota, an island in southern India, with an orbiter, a lander and a rover, in a demonstration of India\u2019s emerging space technology. The spacecraft will embark on a journey lasting slightly over a month before landing on the moon\u2019s surface later in August.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/14\/indian-rocket-chandrayaan-3-blasts-into-space-historic-moon-mission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandrayaan-3 launches from island in southern India in follow-up to failed effort four years agoAn Indian spacecraft has blazed its way towards the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[62,2950,299,61,297,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-international-space-station","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\/56664","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56665,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56664\/revisions\/56665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}