Live reports on the Chandrayaan 3 launch show that the mission to the moon was successful.

Live updates on the ISRO Chandrayaan 3 launch: From the Sriharikota launchpad, the LVM3 rocket has taken off.

On Thursday, July 14, at 2.35 PM IST, the Chandrayaan-3 mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lifted off from Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

If Isro completes this mission successfully, it will join the United States, the former Soviet Union, and most recently China as the only four nations to have accomplished a soft landing on the moon. Before making a successful Moon landing, both the Soviet Union and the United States lost numerous spacecraft in crashes. With the Chang'e-3 mission in 2013, China was the only nation to complete the mission successfully on its first try.

The spacecraft successfully launched from Earth and is currently travelling towards the Moon in an orbit around the planet. According to P Veeramuthuvel, project director of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, it has a number of crucial events planned, including earth-bound manoeuvres, insertion into the lunar orbit, separation of the lander, a sequence of deboost manoeuvres, and a power descent phase for a soft landing.