India鈥檚 鈥榤oon chariot鈥 is set for takeoff
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India will make a new bid to launch a landmark mission to the moon on Monday, a week after aborting lift-off at the last minute because of a fuel leak, officials said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation said it had rescheduled the launch of Chandrayaan-2, or Moon Chariot-2, for 2:43pm (local time) next Monday.
India is aiming to become just the fourth nation after Russia, the United States and China to land a spacecraft on the moon.
Indian space chiefs called off the planned launch of the rocket 56 minutes before blast-off on Monday morning because of what ISRO called a 鈥渢echnical snag.鈥
Media reports quoted ISRO scientists saying a helium fuel leak had been detected.
India has spent about US$140 million on preparations for the project, which is one of the cheapest among international space powers.
By comparison, the US spent about US$25 billion 鈥 the equivalent of more than US$100 billion in current prices 鈥 on 15 Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s. The rocket will launch from Sriharikota, an island off the coast of southern Andhra Pradesh state.
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