The Centre has lately accorded approval for the bold Chandrayaan-5 mission to check the Moon, ISRO Chairman V Narayanan mentioned on Sunday (March 16, 2025).
At an occasion to felicitate him for taking up because the Chairman of the Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation, Narayanan mentioned that in contrast to the Chandrayaan-3 mission which carried the 25-kg rover ‘Prayagyaan’, the Chandrayaan-5 mission would carry a 250 kg rover to check the Moon’s floor.
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The Chandrayaan mission consists of finding out the lunar floor. Chandrayaan-1, efficiently launched in 2008, took chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The Chandrayaan-2 mission (2019) was 98% profitable, however simply two per cent of the Mission couldn’t be achieved within the closing levels.
Still, the onboard high-resolution digital camera on Chandrayaan-2 is sending a whole lot of photographs, Narayanan, additionally the Secretary of Department of Space, mentioned.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to exhibit end-to-end functionality in protected touchdown and roving on the lunar floor.
ISRO efficiently launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission with the Lander Vikram efficiently ‘soft-landing’ on the South pole of the Moon on August 23,2023.
“Just three days back, we got the approval for Chandrayaan-5 Mission. We will be doing it in association with Japan,” Narayanan mentioned.
The Chandrayaan-4 Mission anticipated to be launched in 2027 goals to carry samples collected from the Moon.
On ISRO’s future tasks, Mr. Narayanan mentioned aside from numerous missions together with Gaganyaan, plans are afoot to ascertain India’s personal Space Station–Bharatiya Space Station.
Published – March 16, 2025 11:21 pm IST
