ISRO Developing Chandrayaan-4 Moon Mission Design for NET 2027 launch
Tentative Chandrayaan-4 concept features 5 modules: re-entry (RM), transfer (TM), ascender (AM), descender (DM), and propulsion (PM), with objectives including soft landing, regolith sample collection, lunar ascent, lunar orbit docking, inter-module sample transfer and Earth return; Mission will utilize 2 launch vehicles, LVM3 and PSLV; “Extremely challenging” design architecture shared by ISRO Chairman S Somanath at 22nd National Space Science Symposium (hosted by Goa University) under review, being debated and discussed; LUPEX joint mission with JAXA to study PSR also pending approval with landing on Shackleton Connecting Ridge 1 (89.44°S, 137.17°W) possible