Early 2021: India launches its Chandrayaan-3 rover to the moon
ISRO chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan displays a model of the Chanrayaan-2 orbiter and rover on August 20, 2019.
AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to re-attempt a moon landing in 2021. During its first mission of this kind, in September 2019, the Chandrayaan-2 lander lost communications on descent and crashed into the lunar surface.
But that mission's orbiter is still circling the moon and seems to be in good health. If all goes according to plan, the Chandrayaan-3 lander will reach the lunar south pole, communicate with the orbiter, and pick up where Chandrayaan-2 left off.