Chandrayaan-1
OrbiterCube-shaped orbiter carrying eleven science instruments, five from India and six from abroad.
- Launch mass
- 1,351 kg
- Dry mass
- 496 kg
- Size
- 1.5 m × 1.5 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- ISRO
- Last contact
- 28 Aug 2009
- Designator
- 2008-052A
Image: Indian Space Research Organisation · GODL-India · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 22 Oct 200800:52:11 UTC
- Last contact
- 28 Aug 2009
- Duration
- 10 months 6 days
- Destinations
- Moon
India's first mission to the Moon. Its instruments, including NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, found water molecules across the lunar surface.
Milestones
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2009
Spacecraft
Completed
Moon Impact Probe
ImpactorSmall probe released from the orbiter to strike the Moon near its south pole, sampling the thin atmosphere on the way down.
- Launch mass
- 29 kg
- Size
- 0.5 m × 0.4 m, span 0.5 m
- Power
- Battery
- Built by
- ISRO
- Last contact
- 14 Nov 2008, 15:01:00 UTC
Mission details from isro.gov.in.