Like many other countries, India too wanted to send people to the Moon. When Indian scientists worked out the plan for a mission to the Moon, they wanted to design, develop and launch a spacecraft to the Moon using a launch vehicle made in India. This would upgrade India’s technological expertise, provide ample experience of space technology and prepare India for future planetary explorations.
Chandrayaan 1 aimed at mapping the Moon in terms of minerals, elements and topography that would help in the preparation of a three dimensional atlas of the Moon. It also includes the search for the presence of water and ice on the Moon. Though the contact with the lunar probe was lost after ten months of its launch, Chandrayaan 1 was a grand success; it completed almost all of the major objectives of the mission.
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