urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:chandrayaan-3_vikram.lra 1.1 1.25.0.0 Product_Context 2025-12-24 1.1 Updated schema version. 2024-08-06 1.0 Initial version. urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.chandrayaan-3_vikram instrument_to_instrument_host 10.1016/j.pss.2024.105864 Kanu, Nand Jee, Eva Gupta, and Girish C. Verma. "An insight into India's Moon mission–Chandrayan-3: The first nation to land on the southernmost polar region of the Moon." Planetary and Space Science (2024): 105864, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2024.105864 Chandrayaan-3 Laser Retro-Reflector Array (LRA) Retroreflector Array LRA (Laser Retroreflector Array) is a small, passive optical instrument designed to provide a target for precision laser ranging from a spacecraft in lunar orbit, enabling geolocation of the lander and its instrument suite and establishing a fiducial maker on the lunar surface. LRA contains eight 1.27-cm-diameter corner cube retroreflectors mounted on a dome-shaped aluminum structure. The LRA unit on Chandrayaan-3 is mounted on a small shelf mounted on the lander top deck.