Chandrayaan-1

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Chandrayaan-1 to be launched tomorrow


Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Oct 21 (ANI): Chandrayaan-1, India’’s spacecraft mission to moon will be launched tomorrow from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikotta.
Presently, Chandrayan-1, is undergoing final checks, prior to its launch at 6.20 a.m on Wednesday. The spacecraft would be carrying 11 payloads (scientific instruments) and weigh about 1,380 kg at the time of its launch, according to reports.
Chandrayaan-1 satellite would orbit the Moon at an altitude of 100 km mapping the topography and the mineralogical content of the lunar soil. Chandrayaan-1 would also carry a Moon Impact Probe payload for demonstrating the technology needed towards landing on the Moon”””’’s surface. India believes the Rs 386-crore lunar mission is a step towards its quest for exploration of outer space and inter-planetary missions. (ANI)

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Mission Objectives

• To launch and orbit a spacecraft in lunar polar orbit and conduct scientific studies.
• To carry out high resolution mapping of topographic features in 3D, distribution of various minerals and elemental chemical species including radioactive nuclides covering the entire lunar surface using a set of remote sensing payloads. The new set of data would help in unraveling mysteries about the origin and evolution of solar system in general and that of the moon in particular or on its composition and mineralogy.
• Realize the mission goal of harnessing the science payloads, lunar craft and the launch vehicle with suitable ground support system including DSN station, integration and testing, launching and achieving lunar orbit of ~100 km, in-orbit operation of experiments, communication/telecommand, telemetry data reception, quick look data and archival for scientific utilization by identified group of scientists.

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lets see how chandrayaan-1 looks like.

Chandrayaan-1, the Cuboid shape Indian dream will launch sometime latter in this year. The date is not exactly fixed but the talk is that it might be in or around june last or july first week. But till then lets see how chandrayaan-1 looks like.

I have scoured internet to get some images that are doing rounds on the web. Do check them out some are really cool.

Chandrayaan-1 with the moon


Chandrayaan-1

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Know the project director of chandrayaan-1

Dr. Mylswamy Annadurai is Project Director of Chandrayaan 1.


Prior to the present appointment, Mr. Annadurai was in Charge of India's National Communication satellite (INSAT) missions as the Mission Director. He has also served as the Associate Project director, for GSAT-3EDUSAT. He was the member secretary of the task team that prepared Chandrayaan-1 project report

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Yeah,heard about it.Cool.Sort of a new space race.Everybody going to moon except U.S..Has U.S. lost interest?Will this mission be doing something that hasn't been done already?

[miguelsanchez]

Thats cool i guess.

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Chandrayaan enters lunar space

Bangalore: India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 entered the lunar space early Tuesday for its final journey into the lunar orbit on Saturday, an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

"The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very well. The complex manouvre was carried out around 5 a.m. by firing the liquid apogee motor (LAM) on board for about 150 seconds to place the unmanned spacecraft 380,000 km away from earth (apogee) and 1,000 km from the moon," ISRO director S. Satish said.

The distance between earth and moon is about 384,000 km.

Preparations for the next major manouvre will begin soon to enable the spacecraft enter lunar orbit on Nov 8 and positions itself about 100 km from the moon's surface.

"Chandrayaan has commenced its final journey towards the moon and will be inserted into the lunar orbit Saturday through complex manouvres from the space control centre of ISRO's telemetry, tracking and command network (Istrac) here," Satish said.

Even as the spacecraft gets ready for its rendezvous with the moon, its terrain-mapping camera (TMC) will shoot pictures of the earth and moon orbiting in 380,000 km (apogee) by 1,000 km (perigee).

"The images will be beamed to Istrac's space centre through electrical signals for processing and developing into high resolution pictures of one-five metres," Satish added.

All functions on board the satellite are performing well and its health parameters are normal. It is also able to send and receive signals from ISRO's deep space network (DSN) at Byalalu, about 40 km from here.

Chandrayaan is carrying 11 scientific instruments, including six foreign payloads - two from the US, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from Bulgaria. The remaining five are indigenously designed and developed by various centres of the state-run ISRO.

The spacecraft was blasted off Oct 22 on board the 316 tonne polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-C11) from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota spaceport, about 80 km north of Chennai.