Aiming to take “a billion dreams” to the moon, India has successfully launched its second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2. The launch was done from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh at 2.43 pm IST on Monday (July 22).
The prime objective of th🅺e mission is to map the location and abundan💮ce of lunar water. Chandrayaan-2 was launched using the 640-tonne rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III).
Shortly after the spacecraft was successfully launched, ♊Indian cricket fraternity took to social media to congratulate the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO). The likes of Virat Kohli, Vir♔ender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and Suresh Raina shared their felicitations over their respective Twitter handles.
Another historic and proud moment fo💜r the nation as the 2 is launche🅺d 🙏🏻 Jai Hind 🇮🇳
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli)
Many congratulations to Team for the successful and seaไmless launch !
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
I always looked up at the moon as a child, wondering what secrets it's hiding. The successful launch of will shed some light on these secrets, & motivate the next gen to help India's space exploration programme. I congratulate everyone at for this success.
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir)
I congratulat💖e Team on achieving yet another milestone with💖 the launch of !
Hope this pav🐽es the way for many mor🃏e ambitious and successful missions in the future. Jai Hind 🇮🇳!
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt)
This is HISTORIC! Propelling a billion 🌜dreams into the sky. What a proud moment for 🇮🇳
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
Exemplary ! Many congratula🍸tions to on the successful launch of .
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
Indeed a hisꩲtoric moment for India. 🇮🇳 Congratulations to all the members of for successfully ♊launching
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25)
Congrats to team on the successful launch of .
A historic and a proud moment for us. 🇮🇳🙏🏻— Kuldeep yadav (@imkuldeep18)
Some countries have moon on their flags
🇵🇰🇹🇷🇹🇳🇱🇾🇦🇿🇩🇿🇲🇾🇲🇻🇲🇷While some countries having their flags on moon
🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇮🇳 🇨🇳— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Congratulations team , this is a very proud and historical mom👍ent for India!
— Cheteshwar Pujara (@cheteshwar1)
This is literally “Shooting for the moon”🙏🏻🙏🏻
Congratulations for the historic achievement.
Another proud moment for the nation.-2— IamKedar (@JadhavKedar)
Congratulations to on successful launch of . Salute to all the scientists whose efforts have made this possible. Bravo guys!
You have made the nation proud.— Vinod Kambli (@vinodkambli349)
Congratulations on the launch. Pray the missioꦫn is as successful. Southern half of the moon could have the answers for both past n future n could be the game cha𒁏nger
— Deep Dasgupta (@DeepDasgupta7)
Yet another wonderful achievement by , they constantly make sure of taking the nation forward in thei▨r field and making us proud time and again!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
W෴hat a beautiful sight. Proud moment for the nation on the launch of
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
