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Chandrayaan-5 Mission
March 20 , 2025
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- The Centre has recently accorded the approval for the ambitious Chandrayaan-5 mission to study the Moon.
- The Chandrayaan-5 mission would carry a 250 kg rover to study the Moon's surface.
- Chandrayaan-1, successfully launched in 2008, made chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic maps of the Moon.
- The Chandrayaan-2 mission in 2019 concluded when its lunar landed crashed on the moon’s surface.
- The Chandrayaan-3 mission was successfully made soft-land on the moon’s south pole region on August 23, 2023.
- The Chandrayaan-4 mission is expected to be launched in 2027.
- It will aim to collect samples of the lunar soil from the moon and bring the back to the earth for further study.
