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| Chandrayaan-1 moon mission over: ISRO |
| 2009-08-29 |
| BANGALORE: Project Director M Annadurai on Saturday said that Chandrayaan-1 moon mission is over. Earlier in the day, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft lost contact with ISRO's ground station, putting a question mark on the fate of country's maiden moon mission launched in October last year. "The contact was lost at 01.30 IST as the deep space network (DSN) at Byalalu, about 40 km from Bangalore, received the data from the lunarcraft during the previous orbit up to 00.25 IST," according to an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) statement. The space scientists were reviewing the telemetry data to analyse the health of the spacecraft's sub-systems. Chandrayaan was launched Oct 22, 2008 from India's only spaceport Sriharikota, about 90 km from northeast of Chennai, on board the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV). "The spacecraft has completed 312 days in orbit, making over 3,400 orbits around the moon and providing large volume of data from sophisticated sensors like terrain mapping camera, hyper-spectral imager, moon mineralogy mapper and so on, meeting most of the scientific objectives of the mission," the statement added. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #3 India has the neatest little space program you never hear much about. Amazing what a bunch of science nerds from New Delhi can do with a couple slide rules and a few cocktail napkins. Well done, guys. |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-08-29 13:30 |
| #2 And got NASA to contribute a 100 million dollar SAR instrument payload.... |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-08-29 12:48 |
| #1 The ISRO spent 86 million dollars (including the ground facilities and launch vehicle) on this first attempt. Not bad at all. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-08-29 12:46 |