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The term 'supermoon', coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979, refers to a new or full Moon that occurs when the Moon is within 90 per cent of its closest approach to Earth.
Japan is the fifth nation to pull off a fiendishly tricky 'soft landing' after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.
The rocket body has reentered the Earth's atmosphere 124 days after it was launched.
Modi's directions came during a briefing by ISRO Chairman S Somanath on the progress of the Gaganyaan mission, which is to have its first demonstration flight of the crew escape system on October 21.
Chandrayaan 3 has successfully separated from LVM3-M4 rocket, the ISRO said.
If the Chandrayaan-3 mission — slated for launch on Friday, July 14 — goes as planned, it will place India in the elite club of four nations that have set their footprints on the lunar surface by landing a space vehicle.
Chandrayaan-3 will be launched by the Launch Vehicle Mark-III from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota and this is scheduled for July 13 at 2:30 pm, according to the officials.
Victor J Glover and Christina Hammock Koch to be the first person of colour and first woman respectively assigned to a lunar mission.
The capsule is headed for a wide orbit around the moon and then a return to Earth with a Pacific splashdown in about three weeks.
Extensive fuel leak repairs could require that the rocket be hauled off the pad and back into its hangar, possibly pushing the flight into October.
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