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Chandrayan I
It was on July 20, 1969 that “Eagle”, the lunar module landed on the moon and American Astronaut Neil Armstrong took “that one small step” paving way for “a giant leap for mankind”.In 2007-08, India will launch Chandrayan I, which will be closely followed by China’s CHANGE-I. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is spear-heading all the activities in the field.Chandrayan I, India’s first unmanned mission to moon was announced on August 15, 2003. The Chandrayan I mission envisages placing a 525 kg satellite in a polar orbit 100 km above the moon and it will be launched using a modified version of India’s indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).The main objectives of the Chandrayan include obtaining imagery of the moon’s surface using a high resolution remote sensing instruments in the visible, near infrared, low and high energy X-ray region.Considering the interest shown by the international scientific community, a provision has Read more…
Chandrayaan 1 – The Indian first mission to moon
In Ancient India language Sanskrit “Chandrayaan” means “Moon Craft” or Moon Vehicle.Chandrayaan-1 is India’s first mission to the Moon launched by India’s national space agency the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). In Chandrayaan-1, the lunar craft launched using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) weighing 1304 kg at launch and 590 kg at lunar orbit. Lunar craft would orbit around moon 100 km from moon surface. The unmanned lunar exploration mission includes a lunar orbiter and an impactor. India launched the spacecraft by a modified version of the PSLV, PSLV C11 on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh about 80 km north of Chennai. The mission is a major boost to India’s space program, as India competes with Asian nations China and Japan in exploring the Moon. The vehicle was successfully inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008.Succesful Launched of Chandryaan 1On November Read more…
Chandrayaan-1, India’s First Mission to Moon
It was a tremendous achievement in Indian space research programme soon after historic launching of Chndrayaan-1 to the orbit of the Moon. Once again India has proved that India is one of the advanced countries as concern to the space borne technology in the world. This achievement came to harness the goal of success due to some important relevant India’s space organizations which are mainly of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Space Application Centre (SAC), National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), National Physical laboratory (NPL), Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) etc. India is also very advanced in techniques of space borne application due to availability and dissemination of good digital satellite data. There are good resolution of satellite data derived from sensors like LISS-III, LISS IV and Panchromatic camera in the visible and Near Infra Red band of EMR spectrum which are the Read more…
