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Chandrayaan-1 was intended not only to be a demonstration of India's technology in space, but also was expected to return scientific information about the moon, according to NASA.

With India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe settled into a stable orbit 100 kilometers over the Moon’s poles, eight of the 10 scientific instruments on board the spacecraft have been powered on and ...

- Chandrayaan-1 was launched by India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C11 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Whereas Chandrayaan-2 was launched by GSLV MK-III M1 launch vehicle ...

Chandrayaan-1 was launched October 22 from India’s spaceport at Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. The launch placed the spacecraft in an elliptical orbit around Earth.

After Chandrayaan-1’s entry into its planned lunar orbit on November 8, 2008, the orbital height was reduced in steps to its intended operational altitude of 100 km from the lunar surface.

Chandrayaan 1 Mission . India launched its first mission to the moon on October 22, 2008, from Sriharikota. The mission was named as ‘Chandrayaan’, meaning the carrier to the moon.

Chandrayaan 1 was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in October 2008, and operated until August 2009. The mission included an orbiter and an impactor.

Chandrayaan-1 played a crucial role in the discovery of water molecules on the Moon. The mission, launched in 2008, was the first Indian lunar probe under the Chandrayaan programme.