Chandrayaan programme
| Candrayāna Abhiyāna | |
 LVM3 M4 lifting off with Chandrayaan-3 on 14 July 2023 | |
| Program overview | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Organisation | ISRO |
| Purpose | Exploration of the Moon |
| Status | Active |
| Programme history | |
| Cost | ₹1,980 crore (US$210 million) |
| Duration | 2003–present |
| First flight | Chandrayaan-1, 22 October 2008 |
| Last flight | Chandrayaan-3, 14 July 2023 |
| Successes | 2 |
| Failures | 0 |
| Partial failures | 1 (Chandrayaan-2) |
| Launch site | Satish Dhawan Space Centre |
| Vehicle information | |
| Uncrewed vehicles |
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| Launch vehicles | |
The Chandrayaan programme (/ˌtʃʌndrəˈjɑːn/ CHUN-drə-YAHN) (Sanskrit: Candra 'Moon', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle', ⓘ) is an ongoing series of outer space missions by ISRO for the exploration of the Moon. The program incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a lunar lander and a rover spacecraft.
There have been three missions so far with a total of two orbiters, landers and rovers each. While the two orbiters were successful, the first lander and rover which were part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, crashed on the surface. The second lander and rover mission Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon on 23 August 2023, making India the first nation to successfully land a spacecraft in the lunar south pole region, and the fourth country to land on the Moon after the Soviet Union, the United States and China.