ISRO announces that the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has been integrated with the launch vehicle

At Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) connected the encased assembly housing Chandrayaan-3 with the launch vehicle — LVM3.

"Today, at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, the encapsulated assembly containing Chandrayaan-3 is mated with LVM3," said ISRO in a tweet.

The space agency's chairman, S Somnath, told ANI last month that the launch date of its third lunar mission will be between July 13 and July 19.

"We will be able to land on the moon softly." "The launch date is July 13, and it can be extended up to July 19," Somnath had stated.

Earlier this year, the ISRO chairman stated that the Chandrayan-3 mission will most likely launch in June 2023.

Somanath stated during a news conference that mission Chandrayaan-3 is virtually ready for launch in June 2023.

"Chandrayaan-3 is almost finished. Final integration and testing are nearly finished. Still, some more tests are required, so we'll perform it later. There were two openings: one in February and one in June. "We would like to launch in June (2023)," he had stated.

The second mission of India to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, was launched on July 22, 2019, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. However, the mission was aborted after the Vikram lunar lander landed on the Moon in the early hours of September 6.