This article was originally published on July 14 and has been updated to reflect the rescheduled launch date.

Only three nations have successfully landed spacecraft on the moon — the United States and the Soviet Union during the space race of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recently, China. (An Israeli nonprofit attempted to send a lander named Beresheet to the moon earlier this year, but it crashed.)

If all goes well in the coming days and weeks, India hopes to become No. 4 with its Chandrayaan-2 mission. The homegrown mission to the moon aims to demonstrate the technological achievements of one of the largest countries on Earth.

The mission launched from India’s east coast at 2:43 p.m. local time on Monday. Approximately 16 minutes after liftoff, Chandrayaan-2 separated from a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle — Mark III, India’s most powerful rocket, and headed into Earth orbit.