This is the picture of moon’s surface taken from lunar orbit by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft’s Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on November 15, 2008. Taken over the polar region of the moon, […] ...

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

Second, the Indian Moon probe Chandrayaan-1 is now orbiting the Moon! It dropped a small impactor which has reportedly smacked into the south pole crater Shackleton.

India ‘s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft entered lunar orbit Nov. 8, joining Japan ‘s Kaguya and China ‘s Chang’e-1 that have been circling the Moon since late 2007.

Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organization's lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the moon on Nov. 8. One day later, the spacecraft performed a maneuver that lowered the ...

NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization have confirmed that a water-detecting Mini Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) on board the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter has been activated and is ...

As a result, Chandrayaan-1’s thermal protection systems were designed to keep spacecraft electronics running cool amid in-orbit temperatures expected to top out around 75 degrees Celsius.

New findings from India’s 2008-09 Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter mission point to an internal source of water on the Moon detected in magmatic deposits at an equatorial crater peak, according to ...

The Chandrayaan series has been crucial to India’s lunar exploration efforts. The first mission, Chandrayaan-1 (2008), conducted chemical, mineralogical, and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon.

The Indian lunar probe Chandrayaan-1 is slowly making its way to the Moon; it’ll be another week before it gets there. In the meantime, the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has been ...

India stacked its Chandrayaan 3 moon lander and rover atop their rocket ride on Wednesday (July 5), a big milestone ahead of the mission's planned July 14 launch.