Chandrayaan-1

Just a few days remain for anticipated launch of Chandrayaan-2 from Sriharikota, India’s most ambitious mission to the moon yet. The Rs 1000-crore mission is set to carry an orbiter, a lander named ‘Vikram’ and a moon rover christened ‘Pragyan.' The most exciting part of this mission is the country’s first attempted soft landing on a heavenly body. If carried out successfully,

India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 seeking to explore the unchartered Lunar south pole by landing a rover will be launched onboard its most powerful r...

Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The spacecraft carried 11 scientific instruments built in India, USA, UK, Germany, Sweden and Bulgaria.

Chandrayaan-1 was India's first mission to the moon. The lunar orbiter is best known for helping to discover evidence of water molecules on the moon.

Images of Chandrayaan-I and its launcher PSLV C-11 at various stages of development.

October 22, 2O18 marks the 10th anniversary of Chandrayaan-1, India's first planetary probe to the Moon. It was in 2008 that the PSLV carrying Chandrayaan-1 ...

The mission was launched in October 2008. In the mission so far Chandrayaan-1 has found that:* Chandrayaan's moon mineralogy mapper has confirmed the magma ocean hypothesis, meaning that the moon was once completely molten.* The Terrain mapping camera on board Chandrayaan-1, besides producing more than 70,000 three dimensional images, has recorded images of the landing site of US spacecraft Apollo 15.