ISRO´s Chandrayaan-2 launch at 2.43 pm today: Narrow window for second Moon shot
(World News Science)

A week after they had to postpone the launch of Chandrayaan-2 less than an hour before lift-off, scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will try to make use of an extremely narrow window of opportunity Monday afternoon to make another attempt at sending India´s first lander mission to the Moon. Advertising A 20-hour countdown for the launch started 6.43 pm Sunday for the scheduled launch at 2.43 pm Monday. This time, scientists have very little flexibility in terms of time as the suitable slot during which the spacecraft can be launched lasts barely a few minutes. `The most suitable launch window this month was between July 9 and 16. On these days, the time slot during...