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ISRO to continue lunar missions until an Indian lands on moon: Somanath Last August, the premier space agency’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft made a soft landing on the south pole of the lunar surface, making India the first country to achieve the feat. ISRO Chairman S SomanathCredit: PTI Photo...

Chandrayaan-4 mission in process of developing: Isro chairman Somanath He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set the country's target of landing on the moon in early 2040s and ISRO is on a continuous exploration mission. Isro chief S Somanath (Photo: ANI)

Continued from above... Project Relay Talk LUPEX Project members (from the back left: Yuji Katsuki and Shinya Kosaka, from the front left: Ryusuke Nishitani, Dai Kasei) *Unless otherwise noted, image credit is ©JAXA

LUPEX from JAXA page (Google translate) Lunar Polar Explorer (LUPEX) Searching for water at the moon's south pole Investigating the availability of water on the moon through mobile exploration using a rover Rover-mounted observation equipment ① Water resource analyzer (REIWA) ②...

But tweet's representative photo certainly does not have Pragyaan in it.

LUPEX poster from Lunar Planetary Science Conference 2024 (got from redditor astroravenclaw)

India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander barely kicked up any moon dust. Here's why that matters A unique configuration of engines helped India's Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram ace its historic moon landing. The Chandrayaan 3 mission's Vikram lander photographed on the moon's surface by the Pragyan...

They are probably confused with Chandrayaan-1. Chandrayaan-1's MIP traced water on lunar south pole first.

Quoted in TOI too now. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/in-a-first-isro-to-launch-2-vehicles-for-chandrayaan-4-mission-spacecraft-to-bring-lunar-rocks-to-india/articleshow/108338698.cms Chandrayaan-4 will carry five payloads: Propulsion Module (PM) -- guide spacecraft to lunar...

ISRO working on ambitious lunar missions LUPEX, Chandrayaan-4: Official ANI Synopsis The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on two lunar exploration missions following the successful soft-landing of Chandrayaan-3's lander on the Moon. The missions, LuPEx and Chandrayaan-4, aim...

Somanath sir in the press conf: TV-D2 test will be in next 2 months. Chandrayaan-4 LSR in design phase. INSAT-3D to be repurposed for 'an experiment'. NGLV study phase done, design work has started, next step is govt funding approval. #ISRO

From TitaniumSV5's thread on twitter. A concept of Chandrayaan 4 lunar sample return under study(there are other concepts under study): Two new throttleable engine of 1.5kN and 3.1kN are being designed for the LUPEX lander (joint lunar mission of ISRO and JAXA). LUPEX mission total mass...

This one thread, is for all Indian unamanned moon missions. Better than cluttering entire section where everyone in future will be searching.

India landed at around 70 degrees which is fair enough. And again, Chandrayan-1's Moon impact probe landed almost near 90 degrees. So, India anyway remains first on south pole even without Chandrayaan-3.

Priority & expertise and not budget magically is going to make India land humans on moon. Budget is strictly a resultof requirement and $40 billion budget given tomorrow can't make ISRO equivalent to NASA in just 4-5 years. India has a lot do, human space flight, space stations, expertise in...

No, there will be none other US and China to land on moon till 2047 and no other than USA, most likely not even US given constraints as large distances in interplanetary spaces make manned interplanetary unfeasible for most modern techs.

It's just not what you "think", it was the official position of LUPEX that landing technology will be Indian. Technology used in landing Chandryaan-2/Chandryaan-3 was supposed to be basis of its lander.

LOL. Not even 1%. No, that's a normal timeline. No again, that's a hot air timeline as feasible as Elon landing humans on Mars in 2030. Nothing of this sort will happen. Orbital tourism is minimum 20-25 years away from starting, extra terrestrial tourism will not start in at least 21st...

Hop experiment is for future manned moon missions. Chandrayaan-6 will have a separate in-built launcher for sending samples to Earth.

May be because lunar gravity is much higher than asteroids? Anyway, they still failed to land on moon and it was agreed between ISRO and JAXA that ISRO will land on the moon and that technology will be the basis Indo Japanese joint lunar sampling mission.