First successful landing near the lunar south pole.
Trajectory
Courtesy of ISRO (GODL-India)
LVM3 launched into a highly-elliptical Earth parking orbit, then five Earth-bound phase manoeuvres progressively raised apogee to lunar distance. Lunar-bound phase manoeuvres circularized into a 100 km orbit before the Vikram lander separated for powered descent to Shiv Shakti Point, making India the fourth nation to soft-land on the Moon and the first near the south pole.
2023 · 1.3 months