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What was the approved cost of Chandrayaan-3 excluding its launch vehicle?

Chandrayaan-3 carried India's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to the Moon, achieving a soft landing in August 2023. India's Department of Space gave an approved spacecraft cost of INR 250 crore (INR 2.5 billion) in an August 2023 parliamentary answer, explicitly excluding the launch vehicle. A separate government publication gives INR 615 crore for the broader mission budget including the rocket; the game question uses only the narrower approved spacecraft amount.