India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects

Chandrayaan-3 launched July 14 on a LVM-3 heavy-lift rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre into an initial highly-elliptical Earth orbit. This began a circuitous journey to the moon which culminated in the lander making the highest latitude lunar landing and making India the fourth country to safely soft land on the moon. The nominal launch time was however changed after analysis of the orbits of tracked space objects. .