{"id":30805,"date":"2024-10-11T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T03:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30805"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:07:31","slug":"what-is-the-lunar-polar-exploration-mission-lupex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-lunar-polar-exploration-mission-lupex\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About LUPEX Mission:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a collaborative mission between <strong>ISRO and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/strong> (JAXA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To explore the <strong>moon\u2019s southern polar region<\/strong>, investigating the presence of water and other elements, potentially in the form of surface ice.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to showcase innovative surface exploration technologies. The special focus is on vehicular transport and lunar night survival.<\/li>\n<li>It features both a <strong>lander and a rover<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>JAXA is responsible for developing and operating the rover, and ISRO for developing and operating the lander that will carry the rover.\n<ul>\n<li>The rover will drive on its own to search for areas where water is likely to be present and sample the soil by digging into the ground with a drill.<\/li>\n<li>The plan is to acquire data by analyzing the collected samples in detail with observation equipment mounted on the rover.<\/li>\n<li>The rover will be equipped with instruments for <strong>measuring the water content<\/strong> of regolith (lunar sand), drilling, and sampling, as well as with other world-first and world-leading technologies for the driving system and batteries.<\/li>\n<li>The rover will carry not only the instruments of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/isro\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISRO<\/a> and JAXA but also those of the US space agency NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The mission is scheduled to <strong>launch in 2025.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Indian Space Research Organisation?<\/h3>\n<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of India, responsible for the planning and execution of space-related activities in the country. ISRO is one of the most prominent and successful space agencies in the world, known for its cost-effective and efficient space missions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/explainers\/indias-fifth-lunar-mission-lupex-gets-a-nod-heres-all-you-need-to-know-13822745.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India&#8217;s fifth lunar mission &#8216;Lupex&#8217; gets a nod. Here&#8217;s all you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUPEX Mission  is a collaborative mission between ISRO and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}