The much-awaited series of the week, Space Gen – Chandrayaan was released on JioHotstar on January 23, 2026. Space Gen – Chandrayaan is a limited series that revolves around the true story of partially successful India's lunar mission Chandrayaan 2 and how it contributed to the success of Chandrayaan 3.
Created by Arunabh Kumar, and Directed by Anant Singh, Space Gen – Chandrayaan is a five-episode web series that features Nakuul Mehta, Shriya Saran, Prakash Belawadi, Gopal Datt, and more in the key roles.
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Actor Gopal Datt plays the character of Rakesh Mohanty. Rakesh Mohanty is the Principal Scientific Adviser. The makers at the start of the series have clarified that Space Gen is a fictional adaptation that is inspired by true events. Therefore, not every character or scenes in the series depict reality.
The series showcases Rakesh Mohanty coming down heavily on ISRO scientists after the partial success of Chandyaraan 2. In fact, Rakesh Mohanty constituted a panel led by Sudarshan Ramaiah to investigate why Chandryaan 2 mission failed.
In one of the scenes Mohanty says that if PM has hugged the ISRO chief that does not mean he will let things go easily.
In real life, when India's Chandrayaan 2 mission failed, PM Modi hugged then ISRO Chief K Sivan who was seen crying in front of the media.
In 2019, K. Vijayraghavan was the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India during the Chandrayaan-2 mission.He served as PSA from 2018 until Ajay K. Sood succeeded him in 2022.
Vijayraghavan did Bachelor of Technology degree in chemical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1975 and a master's in 1977. He completed his doctoral research in 1983 in the field of molecular biology and holds a Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
During his post-doctoral work, from 1984 to 1985, he was a research fellow and then, from 1986 to 1988, a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology.