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After travelling for about 19 minutes in dark and cloudy skies, the rocket successfully separated its payload into the desired Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)

Chandrayaan-2's achievements: Global lunar sodium map, crater size insights, surface water ice detection with IIRS.

The technically challenging soft landing on the lunar surface is planned on August 23 at 5.47 pm.

An indigenous rubidium atomic clock developed by ISRO's Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad will be flown in NVS-01.

This Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) mission is designed to deploy the NVS-01 navigation satellite, weighing about 2232 kg, into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.

India's heavy lift rocket the about 640 ton Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII (GSLV MkIII) was nicknamed as 'Bahubali' when it flew with the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft.

The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644 ton LVM3 M2 rocket is scheduled to blast off from the first second pad at India's rocket port in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 12.07 a.m. on Sunday.

According to ISRO, the two solid fuel fired booster motors have been strapped on to the liquid fuel powered second stage at the second launch pad at the rocket port in Sriharikota.

As India continues to focus on economic growth, it needs to ensure that environmental damage is limited by adopting green technologies, said ISRO Chairman