Chandrayaan 1
Chandrayaan: India’s Quest for the Moon I ndia has always been fascinated by the Moon, the celestial body that lights up the night sky and influences the tides, festivals, and calendars. India’s interest in the Moon goes beyond mythology and spirituality. India also has a scientific curiosity and ambition to explore the Moon and its mysteries. That is why India launched the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar missions that aim to study the Moon’s surface, composition, and history. The Chandrayaan programme (Chandrayaan is Hindi for “moon craft”) is an ongoing series of outer space missions by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the exploration of the Moon. The programme incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a soft lander and a rover spacecraft. In this blog, you shall get to know about the Chandrayaan 1 mission conducted by ISRO in 2008. The first mission, Chandrayaan-1 , was launched in 2008 and operated for about a year. It was the first Ind...