Chandrayaan-3 countdown starts with craft now 6 days from Moon

India’s third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, is only around six days away from reaching the lunar orbit with another important manoeuvre — that will see Isro slingshot the spacecraft towards Moon — planned between 12am and 1am on August 1. The midnight trans-lunar injection (TLI) manoeuvre is expected to last between 28 and 31 minutes.