Chandrayaan, Aditya-L1, Gaganyaan: The year India reached the …

One of the highlights, Isro said, was Vikram's "hop experiment".

The agency said that when the lander was "commanded to fire its engines, it rose up by about 40cm [16 inches] and landed at a distance of 30-40cm".

This "successful experiment" means the spacecraft could be used in future to bring samples back to the Earth or for human missions, it added.