Here’s how you can watch Chandrayaan-2’s moon landing

Chandrayaan-2 mission, if successful, will make India only the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon and the first to explore its south pole.

Millions of Indians will keep a close eye as Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) most ambitious mission Chandrayaan-2 will attempt to land on the moon’s south pole early on Saturday.

India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifted off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh,, July 22, 2019 (PTI FILE)

If successful, the Rs 978 crore mission will make India only the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon and the first to explore its south pole.

“… The lander is scheduled to a powered descent between 0100-0200 hours IST on September 07, 2019,” Isro has said a statement.

The nail-biting landing will be streamed live on multiple platforms, including by Isro, and here’s how you can watch it:

* The space agency will be streaming from its main website here, just like its launch event on July 22.

* Isro will also update the landing on its Twitter handle

* The Press Information Bureau (PIB) will stream the landing through its YouTube page here.

* You can also get on Hotstar for Chandrayaan-2’s soft landing on the moon from 11:30pm on September 6.

* National Geographic is also set to broadcast Chandrayaan-2’s moon landing. The television channel is bringing in Nasa astronaut Jerry Linenger in a live show.