{"id":167544,"date":"2023-07-14T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/india-blasts-chandrayaan-3-lander-toward-moons-south-pole"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:27:49","slug":"india-blasts-chandrayaan-3-lander-toward-moons-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/india-blasts-chandrayaan-3-lander-toward-moons-south-pole","title":{"rendered":"India blasts Chandrayaan-3 lander toward moon\u2019s south pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/india-blasts-chandrayaan-3-lander-toward-moons-south-pole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BENGALURU, July 14 (Reuters) \u2014 India\u2019s space agency launched a rocket on Friday that sent a spacecraft into orbit and toward a planned landing next month on the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India\u2019s position as a major space power.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation\u2019s (ISRO) LVM3 launch rocket blasted off from the country\u2019s main spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Friday afternoon, leaving behind a plume of smoke and fire.<\/p>\n<p>About 16 minutes later, ISRO\u2019s mission control announced that the rocket had succeeded in putting the Chandrayaan-3 lander into an Earth orbit that will send it looping toward a moon landing next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU, July 14 (Reuters) \u2014 India\u2019s space agency launched a rocket on Friday that sent a spacecraft into orbit and toward a planned landing next month on the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India\u2019s position as a major space power. The Indian Space Research Organisation\u2019s (ISRO) LVM3 launch rocket blasted off [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}