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India announces 3rd lunar mission after last satellite crashed on the moon

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India announces 3rd lunar mission after last satellite crashed on the moon

India has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon’s surface.

The chairman of India’s space agency, K Sivan, said work was going “smoothly” on the Chandrayaan-3 unmanned mission.

He said the country was aiming to launch the mission in 2020 but that it “may spill over” to 2021.

If successful, it would make India the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, and boost its credentials as a low-cost space power.

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So far, only Russia, the US and China have successfully put a mission on the Moon’s surface.

Mr Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), told reporters that Chandrayaan-3 would have a “similar configuration” to the previous mission.

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