 "India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. ISRO had called off the launch on July 15 after a technical snag was detected ahead of the lif")
In a 1950s novella by Robert Heinlein, a robber baron named Delos D Harriman does a lunar land grab. “The Man Who Sold the Moon” raises money to land a rocket there, by marketing giant advertising billboards, setting up broadcasting stations for TV networks, offering diamond-mining concessions, and so on. ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 (C-II) — India’s second moon mission has purely scientific objectives. But the commercial returns from C-II could be huge, and more realistic than those imagined by Heinlein.
In brief, Isro launched a big rocket (Bahubali) on Monday, July 22. If all goes well, Bahubali will push an orbiter
