Vikram Lander

Chandrayaan-3 is India’s third lunar mission. It aimed to show a soft landing and rover movement. Vikram landed near the South Pole in 2023.

Isro’s Chandrayaan-3 detects hidden ice beneath Moon’s surface

Chandrayaan-3 data reveals widespread ice deposits beneath the Moon's polar surface, offering insights into their origins and development, with implications for future lunar exploration.

ISRO releases Chandrayaan-3 data to global scientific community; check key details of the mission

This mission, which successfully achieved a soft landing on the Moon on August 23, 2023, with the Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover, has garnered worldwide attention and underscored India’s growing expertise in space exploration.

Chandrayaan-3 landing anniversary on August 23: ISRO to unveil images from Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover

To honor the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission and inspire future generations, the Union Government officially declared August 23 as National Space Day in 2023.

Wakey-wakey: ISRO makes attempt to wake up Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, but gets no signals

If ISRO manages to reestablish connection with the lander and the rover then they can extend the mission for another 14 Earth days and give ISRO opportunity to gather further insights into the lunar landscape

Chandrayaan-3 set to enter Phase 2, says Jitendra Singh

Singh said Vikram and Pragyan carried out experiments on the lunar surface since they landed on the Moon on August 23 and were put to sleep on September 4 with batteries fully charged and solar panels placed to catch the rays of the sun after the sunrise near the Moon's south pole.

'Vikram will fall asleep next to Pragyan' once it runs out of power: ISRO

ISRO is expecting solar-powered Pragyan rover and Vikram lander to 'awaken' around September 22, 2023.

Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Lander 'hops' on the Moon. ISRO explains what this means

Explaining why Vikram Lander's second soft landing on the Moon was so important, ISRO explained: 'This kick-start enthuses future sample return and human missions!'

'Smile, please': ISRO shares an image of Vikram lander on lunar surface taken by Pragyan rover

Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Pragyan rover on August 30 clicked an image of the Vikram lander, ISRO said.

Chandrayaan-3 update: ISRO releases graph of temperature variation on lunar surface

ISRO said Chandrayaan's Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) measured the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the south pole, to understand the thermal behaviour of the Moon's surface.

Chandrayaan-3: ISRO releases video of Pragyan rover's touchdown on Moon

In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, ISRO released the video with the caption, "... ... and here is how the Chandrayaan-3 Rover ramped down from the Lander to the Lunar surface."

Chandrayaan-3 sends images of Moon after lunar landing: See pics

Vikram Lander sends first image of Moon after successful landing.

Chandrayaan-3: Here's what all lunar lander Vikram will do next after successful soft-landing

Vikram has a mission life of one Lunar day, equivalent to 14 Earth days.

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Chandrayaan-3: All you need to know about the Vikram lander

Learning from the failure of Chadrayaan-2 in 2019, ISRO chairman S Somnath said that the Vikram lander will be able to make a soft-landing on Moon's surface even if all of its sensors or two engines fail to work.

Chandrayaan 3 LIVE updates: ISRO shares image of rover Pragyan rolling out of lander near Moon's South Pole

Chandrayaan 3 LIVE Updates: ISRO released images of the Moon taken by the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera of Chandrayaan-3 during the descent. The agency also shared the pictures of the rover Pragyan rolling out of the lander near the Moon's South Pole.

Chandrayaan-3 shares images of Moon's far side as Vikram lander readies for landing on Aug 23

ISRO said on August 20 that the lander module with the rover in its belly is expected to touch down on the lunar surface at 6:04 p.m. on August 23.

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Chandrayaan-3: Vikram lander enters deboosting process, to reach destination by Aug 23

The lander will now undergo two successive orbital-reduction manoeuvres over the next five days before it makes the final descent on the lunar surface on August 23, at around 5:47 pm.

Chandrayaan 3: Vikram Lander's role, key objectives before descent on Moon

Vikram lander and Pragyan rover underwent a successful separation from the spacecraft's propulsion module at around 1:15 pm on August 17, ISRO informed via a post on microblogging platform X, formerly Twitter

Chandrayaan-3: RAMBHA, ILSA to help ISRO understand moon better

The payloads, which include RAMBHA and ILSA, would perform a series of path-breaking experiments during the 14-day mission.

In Pics: ISRO’s LVM3-M4 launches Chandrayaan 3 successfully into elliptical orbit around Earth

ISRO successfully put Chandrayaan 3 into the elliptical orbit around Earth and began the journey towards Moon.

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 begins countdown for launch from Sriharikota

India’s indigenous moon-landing mission began the 26-hour countdown before the launch at 2:35pm on July 14 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota

Chandrayaan-3 uses modified Vikram moon lander for lunar descent: All you need to know

Vikram moon lander with slight modification in leg strength will help payloads from Chandrayaan-3 to land on Moon on August 23

Indian techie Shanmuga Subramanian helps NASA find Chandrayaan 2's Vikram lander on Moon

NASA's confirmation came nearly three months after India's Chandrayaan-2 mission made a hard landing near the uncharted lunar south pole in the wee hours of September 7.