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.

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.

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 Imaging X ray Spectrometer (C1XS), an ESA payload and jointly developed by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of England and ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, ...

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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.

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 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 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.