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| Chandrayaan-2 | 6/6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2 | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T12:59:52.302451+00:00 | kb-cron |
Ritu Karidhal – Mission Director Muthayya Vanitha – Project Director Kalpana Kalahasti – Associate Project Director G. Narayanan – Associate Project Director G. Nagesh – Project Director (former) Chandrakanta Kumar – Deputy Project Director (Radio-frequency systems) Amitabh Singh – Deputy Project Director (Optical Payload Data Processing, Space Applications Centre (SAC))
== Reattempt ==
In November 2019, ISRO officials stated that a new lunar lander mission was being studied and prepared. It was launched on 14 July 2023; with the designation Chandrayaan-3, which was a second attempt to demonstrate the landing capabilities needed for the Lunar Polar Exploration Mission proposed in partnership with Japan for 2025. The new mission was designed with a detachable propulsion module, also behaving like a communications relay satellite, a lander and a rover, but with no orbiter. S. Somanath, the VSSC director, announced that there would be more follow-up missions in the Chandrayaan programme. In December 2019, it was reported that ISRO requested the initial funding of the project, amounting to ₹75 crore (US$7.9 million), of which ₹60 crore (US$6.3 million) is intended for machinery, equipment and other capital expenditure, while the remaining ₹15 crore (US$1.6 million) was sought under a revenue expenditure allowance. K. Sivan stated that its cost would be around ₹615 crore (equivalent to ₹724 crore or US$77 million in 2023). It performed a soft landing on the Moon on 23 August 2023.
== See also ==
Beresheet lander – Concurrent lunar lander mission, crash-landed on the Moon Chandrayaan-3 LUPEX Exploration of the Moon List of missions to the Moon List of ISRO missions Lunar resources
== References ==
== External links ==
Official Chandrayaan-2 mission page Archived 29 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, by the Indian Space Research Organisation GSLV-Mk III launcher Archived 12 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine, by the Indian Space Research Organisation