The announcement is important as the Chandrayaan-3 lander, named Vikram, operated for only 14 Earth days (one lunar day) on Moon’s surface after the lunarcraft landed on south pole side of Moon on Aug 23, 2023, and Isro could gather valuable data for just two weeks. Isro chairman said, “We are going to work on a project with DAE under the guidance of our minister, where we are going to develop objects… Thereby, this type of lander will survive for up to 200 days.”
