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, the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the Moon November 8. One day later, the spacecraft performed a maneuver that lowered ...

Chandrayaan-1 completed over 3,400 orbits around the Moon before the mission ended when communication with the spacecraft was lost on August 29, 2009.

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

November 14, 2008: The Moon impact probe ejects from Chandrayaan-1 and crashes near the lunar South Pole -- confirming the presence of water molecules on Moon's surface.

Li and co-authors, who analysed remote sensing data from Chandrayaan-1’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument between 2008 and 2009, specifically assessed the changes in water formation as the Moon ...

India has launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission, which aims to explore the south pole of the moon by rover, completing a scientific mission that was first attempted in 2019 but ended in catastrophic ...

Costing $75m, Chandrayaan-3 consists of lunar lander and rover and was fired into space by the country’s Launch Vehicle Mark 3 rocket. India’s first mission to the Moon – the Chandrayaan-1 orbiter – ...

India News: In another big Moon discovery linked to India's first lunar mission, scientists from a US university studying the data from Chandrayaan-1 have found t.

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