Chandrayaan-4

February 10, 2025

India’s Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh announced that the country aims to launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission by 2027.
ISRO’s Chandrayaan-4 Mission is India’s first lunar sample return mission, aiming to collect and bring back Moon soil and rock samples.
The Chandrayaan-4 will use five different components, which will be assembled in orbit, to help India overcome payload limitations as due to payload size constraints for single-launch rockets.
It will require two separate launches using the heavy-lift LVM-3 rocket.
The first launch is planned to carry the ascender module and descender module.
The second launch would carry the transfer module, re-entry module, and the propulsion module.
It could involve international collaboration with partners like Russia or NASA.