Chandrayaan-3: Historic India mission enters Moon orbit, aiming for south pole

Chandrayaan-3, India's latest Moon mission, has entered the lunar orbit, the country's space agency has said.

The spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off on 14 July. It will try to set the lander and rover on the lunar surface on 23 or 24 August.

If successful, India will be the first country to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.

It will be only the fourth to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.