The primary aim of this mission is to achieve a successful landing of the lander on the moon's surface, followed by the deployment of a rover to carry out a range of experiments
The third lunar mission of India has been allocated a budget of Rs 615 crore ($82 million)
The lunar spacecraft will be onboard the Lauch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM-III) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
It consists of an indigenous lander module, a propulsion module and a rover, which is aimed at demonstrating new technologies for interplanetary missions
The current lander will have the capability to soft land at a specified lunar site and deploy the rover, which will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface