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Chandrayaan-1

2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent

Chandrayaan-1

Confirmed widespread lunar water/hydroxyl signatures.

Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog

Launch
22 Oct 2008
Lead / partner
India
Target
Moon
Category
Lunar orbiter
Status
Success
Vehicle
PSLV-XL C11
Mass
unknown
Orbit / trajectory
Selenocentric
Duration
Planned: 2 years Final:

Why it happened

Chandrayaan-1 flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of India's work toward moon. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.

The mission

The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Confirmed widespread lunar water/hydroxyl signatures.

Results

Confirmed widespread lunar water/hydroxyl signatures.

Related missions

Chandrayaan-1 Chang’e 1 — same_target Chang’e 1 Kaguya (SELENE) — same_target Kaguya GRAIL — same_target GRAIL SMART-1 — same_target SMART-1

GRAIL

Success

United States · 2011

Sources & image credits

  • Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-24)
  • Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
  • Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog