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Chandrayaan-3
India's third lunar exploration mission / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chandrayaan-3 is an Indian mission that landed a spacecraft on the Moon in 2023. It is India's third mission of the space Chandrayaan program.
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The lander and rover were supposed to land near the lunar south pole. The mission failed to land there, but landed on August 23, 2023 at 69.367621°S 32.348126°E which is between Manzinus C and Simpelius N craters. The lander is named Vikram, and the rover is named Pragyan.This space exploration program was a work of ISRO
Etymology: Chandrayaan means "Moon-craft".