Chandrayaan-1 was developed at a relatively low cost and launched reasonably close to its original schedule with a payload of 11 instruments, six of which were supplied by international partners.

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 ...

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, India's first mission to the Moon, was successfully launched earlier this morning from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India. The PSLV-C11 rocket, an upgraded version ...

- 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.

Chandrayaan-1 mission: The team led by researchers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa in the United States discovered that these electrons in Earth's plasma sheet are contributing to ...

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.