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Chandrayaan 3 rocket’s body re-enters earth, falls in Pacific: ISRO

“The cryogenic upper stage of the LVM3 M4 launch vehicle made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, around 14:42 IST on Wednesday,” ISRO said in a statement. India’s moonshot Chandrayaan 3 blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 14. After about a month, the Vikram lander with the Pragyan Rover successfully landed on the moon on August 23. This made India the first country in the world to land near the lunar South Pole.