Chandrayaan 1: Chandrayaan-1

Chandrayaan-1 , India's first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The spacecraft carried 11 scientific instruments built in India, USA, UK, Germany, Sweden and Bulgaria. After the successful completion of all the major mission objectives, the orbit has been raised to 200 km during ... Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon , was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. Chandrayaan - 1 orbited and impacted the Moon in 2008, carrying instruments from India and other countries. It discovered water molecules on the lunar surface and mapped its chemical and mineralogical composition. Chandrayaan - 1 was launched in 2008 and orbited the Moon for over a year, mapping its surface and detecting water and hydroxyl. The mission also studied the lunar environment, the solar wind and the lunar craters with various scientific payloads.