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Chandrayaan-3

2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science

Chandrayaan-3

First Indian soft landing on the Moon; first near the lunar south polar region.

Era 6 of 6 · full record in the catalog

Launch
14 Jul 2023
Lead / partner
India
Target
Moon south-polar region
Category
Lander / rover
Status
Success
Vehicle
LVM3 M4
Mass
unknown
Orbit / trajectory
unknown

Why it happened

Chandrayaan-3 flew during 2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science, as part of India's work toward moon south-polar region. 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: First Indian soft landing on the Moon; first near the lunar south polar region.

Results

First Indian soft landing on the Moon; first near the lunar south polar region.

Related missions

Chandrayaan-3 Chang’e 4 — same_program Chang’e 4 Euclid — competitor Euclid JUICE — competitor JUICE Luna 25 — competitor Luna 25

JUICE

In transit

ESA · 2023

Sources & image credits

  • ISRO/Simeon Schmauß, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · license: cc-by-2.0 (source, checked 2026-08-24)
  • Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
  • Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog