IN PHOTOS | Timeline of events in Chandrayaan 2's epochal mission to moon

Here is a timeline of India's historic lunar mission, Chandrayaan 2, the spacecraft which is a composite module mission consisting of an orbiter, lander and rover.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 : The then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet approved the Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission. The subsequent years went into mission planning and execution with home-grown technology used for the expedition. ( Photo | Congress Twitter ) 

JULY 15, 2019: The launch of Chandrayaan 2 was called off about an hour before the launch due to technical snag. ( Photo | PTI )

JULY 22, 2019: ISRO successfully launched Chandrayaan-2 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. ( Photo | PTI )

JULY 24, 2019: First earthbound orbit-raising manoeuvre for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft performed successfully. ( Photo | PTI )

JULY 26, 2019: Second earthbound orbit-raising manoeuvre for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft performed. ( Photo | ISRO website )

JULY 28, 2019: Third orbit-raising manoeuvre performed. ( Photo | ISRO website )

AUGUST 3, 2019: ISRO released the first set of earth pictures captured by Chandrayaan 2. ( Photo | ISRO Twitter )

AUGUST 6, 2019: Fifth and the last orbit-raising manoeuvre performed. ( Photo | ISRO Twitter )

AUGUST 14, 2019: After revolving around the earth's orbit for nearly 23 days, the spacecraft entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory. ( Photo | EPS )

AUGUST 20, 2019: Chandrayaan-2 successfully inserted into lunar orbit. ( Photo | ISRO website )

AUGUST 22, 2019: ISRO released first moon image captured by Chandrayaan-2's LI4 Camera. ( Photo | ISRO Twitter )

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019: The fifth and lunar manoeuvre executed successfully.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019: The first de-orbiting manoeuvre performed successfully in four seconds.