The document summarizes India's first lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-1. It provides details on the mission objectives, payload instruments, key events and accomplishments of the mission. Chandrayaan-1 was launched in 2008 and successfully studied the moon's topography and mineral composition using onboard instruments over its lifetime of 312 days in lunar orbit. The mission helped map the lunar surface and confirmed the presence of water ice and other minerals on the moon. It established India as the fifth nation to place a spacecraft in lunar orbit.