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A new international study reveals lunar water ice deposits in permanently shadowed regions are more stable than previously thought, with 74% of these areas unaffected by impacts. This finding is crucial for future manned lunar missions aiming to establish bases, as these regions offer promising targets for water ice exploration and utilization.

Written Off As Dry & Dead After Apollo, Moon Regained Scientific & Strategic Relevance After Isro’s 2008 Mission Detected Water Molecules, Reshaping Global Space Policy, Allowing For Artemis

Four astronauts are set to launch on a historic lunar mission, marking humanity's return to the Moon after over 50 years. This revival of crewed lunar exploration was significantly fueled by the discovery of water by India's Chandrayaan-1, which reignited global interest and provided crucial scientific justification for future missions.

How Chandrayaan-1, fitted with a key Nasa instrument, helped revive crewed lunar programme

India's ISRO is planning ambitious future missions, including Chandrayaan-4 for lunar sample return and Chandrayaan-5 with a heavier, longer-lasting lander. Future endeavors also encompass Mars landing and Venus missions, alongside the Gaganyaan human spaceflight program aiming for astronaut launches within two years.

India's second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, a Rs 425 crore project, took a definite shape with Isro announcing details of payloads or scientific instruments to be flown on the orbiter and the rover. Chandrayaan-2 will be launched in 2013 from Sriharikota.

The first orbit reduction manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 has been successfully completed, taking the spacecraft as near as 200 km from the moon, according to ISRO.

Eight years after it was considered "lost", India's first lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, has been "re-discovered" by Nasa's ground-based radars, the American space agency announced on Friday.

Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) most complex mission ever Chandrayaan-2 will be launched between July 9 and 16 and is expected to land on the moon on September 6. "It is going to land at a particular location where nobody has gone before," said Isro chairman K Sivan. Chandrayaan-2 has three modules Orbiter, Lander (Vikram) and Rover (Pragyan).

India's first lunar probe - the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft - which was considered lost, is still orbiting the Moon, NASA scientists have found by using a new ground-based radar technique.

Isro lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched. Now, scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have successfully located it circling some 200km above the lunar surface.

Chandrayaan-I entered the operational lunar orbit after the final reduction manoeuvre, lasting one minute. It is now at a circular orbit of 102 km above the moon's surface.

The lander, which has the rover (Pragyan) in its belly, had performed its first solo operation Friday and entered an orbit of 113km x 157km fromAs per the current plan, Isro will attempt soft-landing of Vikram on August 23 and Sunday’s manoeuvre will be critical in reaching the final descent stage.