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.

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.

- 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 ...

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 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.

A full duration hot test of SMPS for 350 seconds was conducted to validate the integrated performance of the SMPS for flight ...

August 28, 2009: End of Chandrayaan 1 programme as per ISRO. July 22, 2019: Chandrayaan-2 launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. August 20, 2019: Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft inserted ...

India's first Moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, was successfully launched in 2008. It collected chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic data from the moon.

Chandrayaan-1, launched by Isro in October 2008, operated until August 2009. The mission, which included an orbiter and an impactor, had made various significant findings about the Moon, ...

India’s first mission to the Moon – the Chandrayaan-1 orbiter – was launched in 2008 and featured 11 payloads, six of which were built by outside countries. The follow-up mission – dubbed ...