Chandrayaan-3 India’s Moon Mission

Chandrayaan-3 was expected to be India’s third lunar exploration mission, following the successful Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2 missions. The primary goal of the Chandrayaan program is to explore the Moon’s surface and study its composition, topography, and mineralogy.

Chandrayaan-1, launched in 2008, made significant contributions to lunar science by discovering water molecules on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-2, launched in 2019, included an orbiter, lander (Vikram), and rover (Pragyan). While the orbiter continues to study the Moon from orbit, the lander’s attempted soft landing was not successful.

Chandrayaan-3 was expected to be a lander-rover mission, similar to Chandrayaan-2, with a focus on achieving a successful soft landing on the Moon’s surface and deploying a rover to conduct scientific experiments.