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Chandrayaan-2: Moon Mission Launch Called Off By ISRO 56 Minutes Before Lift-Off Due To ‘Technical Snag’
Swarajya Staff
Jul 15, 2019, 03:47 AM | Updated 03:46 AM IST
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The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has called off the launch of its second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, due to a ‘technical snag’.
According to the agency, the technical snag was observed around 56 minutes before the scheduled lift-off of the launch vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the barrier island of Sriharikota off India's south-eastern coast.
A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-56 minute. As a measure of abundant precaution, #Chandrayaan2 launch has been called off for today. Revised launch date will be announced later.
— ISRO (@isro) July 14, 2019
The mission was to be launched at 2:51 am.
ISRO will soon announce a new date for the launch of the mission.
The filling of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuels had been completed just a few minutes before the countdown for lift-off was put on hold.
Filling of Liquid Hydrogen in Cryogenic stage of #GSLVMkIII-M1 completed.#Chandrayaan2 #ISRO
— ISRO (@isro) July 14, 2019
Stay tuned for more updates..
Filling of Liquid oxygen in cryogenic stage of #GSLVMkIII-M1 completed and filling of Liquid Hydrogen is in progress. #Chandrayaan2 #ISRO
— ISRO (@isro) July 14, 2019
Updates to continue..
ISRO has not provided details about the ‘technical snag’. The agency has not clarified if the technical glitch was with the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft or the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III, its heaviest rocket.
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