{"id":173253,"date":"2025-06-13T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173253"},"modified":"2025-06-13T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:33:30","slug":"india-japans-lupex-mission-enters-design-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-japans-lupex-mission-enters-design-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Japan\u2019s LUPEX Mission Enters Design Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India and Japan\u2019s Chandrayaan-5 (also called LUPEX) mission is advancing to the design phase, aiming to detect water and water-ice at the Moon\u2019s south pole.<br>Scheduled for launch in 2027\u201328 on Japan\u2019s H3 rocket, the 6.5-tonne lander and a 350-kg rover equipped with seven instruments (from ISRO, JAXA, ESA, and NASA) will perform in-situ scientific experiments.<br>The project marks a strong symbol of global collaboration and follows India\u2019s successful Chandrayaan-3 mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission Overview &amp; Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Chandrayaan-5 (LUPEX \u2013 Lunar Polar Exploration Mission)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Collaborators:<\/strong>\u00a0ISRO (India) and JAXA (Japan)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Goal:<\/strong>\u00a0Explore water and water-ice at the Moon\u2019s south pole (surface + subsurface)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Planned<\/strong>\u00a0Launch: 2027-28 aboard Japan\u2019s H3 rocket<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Duration:<\/strong>\u00a0100 days (proposed)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lander:<\/strong>\u00a0Built by ISRO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rover (350 kg):<\/strong>\u00a0Developed by JAXA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Instruments:<\/strong>\u00a07 onboard, including contributions from ESA and NASA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scientific Instruments &amp; Capabilities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One large instrument with four sensors (1 by ISRO, 3 by JAXA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ESA: Developing a mass spectrometer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NASA: Designing neutron spectrometers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Instruments designed for,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In-situ experiments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Measuring energy, mass, and hydrogen presence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drilling lunar regolith and analyzing water content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Japan\u2019s Chandrayaan-5 (also called LUPEX) mission is advancing to the design phase, aiming to detect water and water-ice at the Moon\u2019s south pole.Scheduled for launch in 2027\u201328 on Japan\u2019s H3 rocket, the 6.5-tonne lander and a 350-kg rover equipped with seven instruments (from ISRO, JAXA, ESA, and NASA) will perform in-situ scientific experiments.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173255,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173253\/revisions\/173255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173253"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}