India becomes 4th nation to land on moon Four days after Russia's ill-fated Luna-25 moon probe crash landed, India's heavily instrumented Chandrayaan-3 robotic lander dropped out of orbit for a ...

He watched Chandrayaan-3 make its mark on the moon, waving an Indian flag and smiling as the spacecraft touched down. “This moment is of developed India’s victory,” he said shortly after.

Chandrayaan-3, India's latest mission to the moon, is set to undertake its key final stage today as the unmanned spacecraft attempts a soft landing on the lunar surface — 40 days after its ...

Here’s how it works. News of the successful moon landing of India's Chandrayaan-3 reached the International Space Station via social media. (Image credit: ISRO via Twitter) ...

The Indian Space Research Organization launched Chandrayaan-3 over a month ago with the goal of landing near the lunar south pole, where it made a soft landing at about 8:33 a.m. EDT Wednesday.

Chandrayaan-3's landing site near the moon's south pole will be named Shiv Shakti Point, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday (Aug. 26).

India moved one step closer to executing a controlled landing on the moon after its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft entered lunar orbit over the weekend, inching toward the surface’s unexplored South Pole.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander on Aug. 23, 2023.

The Chandrayaan-3 lander stands about 2 meters tall and has a mass of just over 1,700 kg (3,747.86 lb), roughly on par with an SUV. It is designed to deploy a smaller, 26-kg lunar rover.