PSLV-C11, successfully launched the 1380 kg Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft into a transfer orbit with a perigee (nearest point to Earth) of 255 km and an apogee (farthest point to Earth) of 22,860 km ...

Bangalore/Chennai: Gearing up for the final countdown for the October 22 moon mission, Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft was on Friday mated with the PSLV-C11 rocket at the Sriharikota spaceport ...

Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon, was successfully launched earlier this morning from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) in Sriharikota, India. The PSLV-C11 rocket, an upgraded ...

Chandrayaan-1 began its journey to the Moon aboard PSLV-C11. This mission discovered water molecules on the lunar surface, a significant scientific achievement. PSLV-C37 set a world record by ...

or PSLV-XL. It arrived in lunar orbit about three weeks later and dropped off the Moon Impact Probe, which crashed into the moon on November 14. The rest of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft stayed in ...

The new finding may also help explain the origin of the water ice previously discovered in the permanently shaded regions of the Moon Chandrayaan-1 played a crucial role in the discovery of water ...

According to the Indian Space Research Organisation, PSLV-C11 was an updated version of ... the project as the mission director of the Chandrayaan-1 mission. The spacecraft was orbiting around ...