India Ascendant: ‘Gravity’s grasp’ versus ‘poverty’s clasp’(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
‘Chandrayaan I’ is a wonderful device to polarize our populace; to instill values such as love for science and adventure as well as foster an intellectual curiosity among our youth and children.
‘Chandrayaan I’ is not at cross-purposes with the fight against poverty; it is the fight against poverty.
The ascent of ‘Chandrayaan I’ is one of the touchstones of an India ascendant; an India that has emerged from Her chrysalis.
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Moon 2008: NASA to help ISRO in India's first mission-India-NEWS-The Times of India(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The two NASA instruments, to be part of the Chandrayaan payloads, are mini synthetic aperture radar (Mini SAR) and moon mineralogy mapper (M3).
Chandrayaan will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota off the Andhra coast, using an advanced polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV), into a 240-24,000 km earth orbit and placed subsequently in a 100-km polar orbit around the moon, with its own propulsion system.
Besides mapping the lunar surface, Chandrayaan will investigate its surface properties to advance knowledge about the moon's history and evolution and facilitate future exploration decisions by characterising the content of lunar soil.
Besides the two US payloads, Chandrayaan-I will carry five Indian instruments, three developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from the Bulgarian Space Laboratory.
Likely to be launched in 2008, Chandrayaan-I will do a physical and chemical mapping of the moon from a 100-km lunar orbit.
Among the Indian payloads, Terrain Mapping Camera will be used to produce a high-resolution map of the Moon, while the Hyper Spectral Imager will perform mineralogical mapping in the 400-900 nm band with a spectral resolution of 15 nm and a spatial resolution of 80 m.
An American geologist, selected by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as an investigator for Chandrayaan-I, has said she is excited and honoured to be part of the historic lunar mission, which aims to "unlock the mysteries" of the moon.
Revealing the closely guarded information about her Chandrayaan-I selection, geologist Carle Pieters told leading Indian news group, the Hindustan Times, in an exclusive interview: "I feel honoured that the project, funded by NASA, has been selected by the ISRO.
An official announcement about the ISRO-NASA collaboration on Chandrayaan-I, would be made after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two countries, Pieters said.
Chandrayaan-I is a lunar polar orbiter designed for chemical, mineralogic and topographic mapping of the lunar surface.
When the common man faces hassles at every step he takes and is not anywhere near where he can eat two timesa day, sleep well at night, get treated for his illness get help from those who are called public servants, it is hypocracy of highest degree to say that the country is developing.
There is nothing bad in sending chandrayaan to moon and doing anyother thing for scientific development but at the same time, the government should work for the betterment of the general public living in the 60,000 villages also.
Chandrayaan I (Sanskrit चंद्रयान-1) which literally means "Moon Craft" is an unmanned lunar mission by the Indian Space Research Organization The mission includes a lunar orbiter as well as an impactor.
The spacecraft will be launched by a modified version of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
"mini-SAR: An Imaging Radar for the Chandrayaan 1 Mission to the Moon".
The scope of the experiments conducted and the sharing of responsibilities and data collected on this mission were determined in the MOUs signed on May 9, 2006.
The Chandrayaan project notwithstanding, concerns of this kind continue to constrain U.S. space-related exports to India, making some Indian analysts skeptical that the new U.S.-India space cooperation agreement will result in significant high-technology transfers from the United States.
Meanwhile, the Chandrayaan-I mission continues to advance with little debate - a sea of tranquility in an ocean still roiled by significant controversies.
The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bangalore, June 27: The European Space Agency will ride piggyback on India’s unmanned mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-I, with the indigenous orbiter carrying three instruments of the ESA meant to mine data on the lunar surface during its 2007-08 odyssey.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) signed a memorandum of understanding with the ESA for fitting these payloads onboard Chandrayaan-I.
The conferences were organised by the Astronautical Society of India and the International Academy of Astronauts in association with the International Institute of Space Law and Isro and its commercial wing, Antrix Corporation.
As part of BARC Golden Jubilee Year Celebrations, a special lecture by Dr. J.N. Goswami, Director, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and Principal Scientist, Indian Mission to Moon, Chandrayaan - I, was held at CC Auditorium, of BARC, on National Technology Day, May 12, 2006.
The lecture emphasized the primary scientific objectives of India's first unmanned scientific mission to the moon which is to investigate the presence of various minerals and chemical elements and carry out high resolution 3-dimensional mapping of the entire moon surface.
The Chandrayaan-I will be a dedicated scientific satellite with planned life time of two years.
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IndiaDaily - Chandrayaan-I — the first indigenous orbiter scheduled for launch in 2007-08 — and crash into the moon ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
IndiaDaily - Chandrayaan-I — the first indigenous orbiter scheduled for launch in 2007-08 — and crash into the moon to toss up a plume of soil and scientific data on minerals and water
Chandrayaan-I — the first indigenous orbiter scheduled for launch in 2007-08 — and crash into the moon to toss up a plume of soil and scientific data on minerals and water
The scientists are designing a 30-kg impactor that will ride onboard Chandrayaan-I — the first indigenous orbiter scheduled for launch in 2007-08 — and crash into the moon to toss up a plume of soil and scientific data on minerals and water.
Bangalore: ISRO and NASA signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday on the inclusion of two US scientific instruments on board India's mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-I. ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin signed the MoU at the ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore.
The first instrument will be sent to find out whether there is any water on the Moon surface, while the second will study its mineral composition.
"Chandrayaan-I is essentially a scientific mission to map the Moon's geophysical features and chemical composition of its surface so as to understand its origin," the Programme Director of Chandrayaan-I said..."
Musings - Abhay S. Kushwaha » Blog Archive » ESA to back Chandrayaan! (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I just read that ESA is going to back Indian moon mission titled Chandrayaan.
India is perhaps the only country to have not used its satellite technology and launch ability for massively military purposes.
I talked about Chandrayaan before when ESA announced backing it.
India News Views Discussion Info Network - ISRO Signs Pact With NASA(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
According to the Programme Director of Chandrayaan-I, Chandrayaan-I is essentially a scientific mission to map the Moon's geophysical features and chemical composition of its surface so as to understand its origin.
For India, Chandrayaan-I is expected to create a new landmark in the history of space research and it will open up new vistas for aeronautic operations on the lunar surface.
Chandrayaan-II, scheduled for 2007-2008, will be India's first unmanned scientific mission to Moon.
