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         CHANDRAYAAN PROGRAMME The  Chandrayaan programme   also known as the   Indian Lunar Exploration Programme  is an ongoing series of outer space missions by the  Indian Space Research Organization  (ISRO) for the  exploration of the Moon . The program incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a  soft lander  and a  rover spacecraft . There have been three missions so far with a total of two orbiters, landers and rovers each. While the two orbiters were successful, the first lander and rover which were part of the   Chandrayaan-2   mission, crashed on the surface. The second lander and rover mission   Chandrayaan-3   successfully landed on the Moon on 23 August 2023, making India the first nation to successfully land a spacecraft in the  lunar south pole  region, and the fourth country to land on the Moon after the Soviet Union, the United States and China.     ...