surface that can be exploited in setting up a future lunar outpost. The Mini-SAR, one of the U.S. payloads on Chandrayaan, was used to determine the presence of water ice. See also Exploration of the Moon Gaganyaan, India's crewed orbital spacecraft List of artificial objects on the Moon List of current and future lunar missions List of Indian satellites List of ISRO missions Lunar water References External links Space probes launched in 2008 2008 in India Missions to the Moon Indian lunar exploration programme ISRO space probes Space synthetic aperture radar Space radar altimeters Spacecraft launched by PSLV rockets