Unbelievable. India successfully leaves for the moon

Chandrayan-2 was launched at 14:43 local time Monday by the Sriarchota space station.

India hopes that the $150 million mission will be the first to land at the southern moon pole.

The launch was broadcast on television live and on the agency's social networking accounts, translated by the BBC, Periscopi.

There were applause in the control room of the Indian Space Research Organisation. A few minutes after launch.

This is the most complex mission undertaken by this agency.

The “is the beginning of a historic Indian trip around the moon,” said Isros's chief.

India's first lunar mission in 2007 landed, not on the surface of the moon, but through radar it detected its surface to see if there was water.

Chandrayaan will try to land on the unexplored South Pole surface.

The mission will focus on the lunar surface, searching for water and minerals and measure moon earthquakes, among other things. /Periscope