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Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota

Video. India successfully launches new mission to land robot explorer on moon

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India has successful launched a rocket to the Moon in a new bid to join the exclusive club of nations - Russia, the United States and China - who have successfully completed a controlled lunar landing.

India has successfully launched Chandrayaan-3, an unmanned rocket carrying a robot explorer to the south pole of the Earth's satellite.

The mission will last 14 days and cost nearly €67 million.

If successful, India will join the select club of countries - Russia, the United States and China - who have successfully completed a controlled lunar landing.

India made a first attempt four years ago, but that rocket lost contact with the Earth shortly before landing on the Moon.

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