ISRO Confirms Chandrayaan-2 Mission's Successful Launch Rehearsal

"Launch rehearsal of #GSLVMkIII-M1 / #Chandrayaan2 mission completed, performance normal #ISRO," tweeted ISRO.

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Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday tweeted that the launch rehearsal of the Chandrayaan-2 mission has been succesfully completed and the performance was normal. It is to be noted that Chandrayaan-2 mission is scheduled to launch on July 22. "Launch rehearsal of #GSLVMkIII-M1 / #Chandrayaan2 mission completed, performance normal #ISRO," tweeted ISRO.

Launch rehearsal of #GSLVMkIII-M1 / #Chandrayaan2 mission completed, performance normal#ISRO

— ISRO (@isro) July 20, 2019

Earlier on Saturday, former ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar had said that the mission is ready for launch on July 22. "Chandrayaan-2 is now ready for launch on 22 July. We intend to move towards the moon on August 14 and land on the moon around September 6. All the activities are in full swing and we are getting ready for the event on July 22," the former ISRO chief told ANI. The launch of the moon mission on  July 15 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre was postponed after a technical snag was observed one hour before the scheduled liftoff. "As a measure of abundant precaution, #Chandrayaan2 launch has been called off for today. The revised launch date will be announced later," ISRO had announced.