Chandrayaan 1: Chandrayaan-1 was India's first

Chandrayaan-1 was India's first mission to the moon. The lunar orbiter is best known for helping to discover evidence of water molecules on the moon. Chandrayaan-1 was India’s first mission to another world . The orbiter discovered water on the Moon. Technologies developed for Chandrayaan-1 helped kickstart India's planetary science program. On October 22, 2008, an Indian PSLV rocket launched the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft into Earth orbit. Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon , was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. Chandrayaan - 1 was launched by ISRO in 2008 and operated until 2009. It consisted of an orbiter and an impactor, and discovered water molecules in lunar soil and mapped the Moon's surface and composition.