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Laser instrument onboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon has successfully pinged the Vikram lander of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, the US space agency said.

The laser beam was transmitted and reflected between the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and an Oreo-sized device on Vikram lander, opening the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the Moon's surface

Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander now serving as Moon's South Pole location marker: The recent achievement of transmitting and reflecting a laser beam between ISRO's Vikram lander and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has significant implications for future space missions. This successful experiment opens up opportunities for accurately locating targets on the moon's surface.

The retroreflector on India's Vikram lander is only two inches wide.

NASA spacecraft, currently orbiting the Moon, sent laser beams to Vikram, and received reflected beams, thus verifying the possibility of a new way to precisely locate objects on the Moon