ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 Mission Likely To Be Launched In 2022 Owing To Covid-19 Disruptions

Hit by the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s ambitious moon exploration mission Chandrayaan-3 which was slated to be launched later this year may now only take flight in 2022, reports Economic Times.

ISRO's chief Dr K Sivan said, "We are working on it. It is the same configuration like Chandrayaan-2 but it will not have an orbiter. The orbiter launched during Chandrayaan-2 will be used for Chandrayaan-3. With that we are working on a system and mostly the launch will be next year in 2022."

Before this, Chandrayaan-2 had taken a flight on 22 June 2019. The mission succeeded in launching the orbiter module in the Moon's orbit. However on 7 September 2019, the lander module Vikram hard-landed on the surface.