Three teams from India, among seven teams total, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said. 

TeamIndus said in a statement "Teams Callisto, Ears and Kalpana from India, Space4Life from Italy, Lunadome from Britain, Killa Lab from Peru and Regolith Revolution from the U.S. have qualified to fly their experiments to the lunar surface in our spacecraft."

TeamIndus spacecraft robot will fly on its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or rocket from its Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, about 80 kilometres northeast of Chennai by the State-run Indian Space Research Organization. 

The statement added, "Space4Life from Naples in Italy will send an experiment to the lunar surface under the Lab2Moon Challenge to test the effectiveness of using a colony of cyanobacteria as a shield against harmful radiation in space."

The India-based team, which proposed an experiment to explore photosynthesis on the moon, will fly along with Space4Life to the lunar surface.

After landing, the spacecraft will deploy its payload, including the TeamIndus rover that will traverse 500 metres on the moon's surface to accomplish its objectives.

TeamIndus rover has been designed and developed in Bengaluru by a 100-person engineering team, including 20 retired Indian space scientists.

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