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Dr. Annadurai Lecture on Chandrayaan
2007-10-08 16:06:00 Dr. M. Annadurai, Project Director of Chandrayaan 1, came to Chennai for delivering a lecture on Chandrayaan in Shaastra, a technical festival conducted by IIT Madras, on October 6. The Key information from his lecture is as follows The main aim of the project was not just to develop lunar science but to understand the moon itself. Previous coverage of the moon was restricted only to some areas, but Chandrayaan will cover entire moon. Also, nine lunar missions from the earth that took place between 1958 and 1976 were mainly due to the competition between the USA and the USSR, to prove their technical supremacy. But, Chandrayaan will look for fossil fuels on moon and thus becomes more important. By the year 2010, Chandrayaan will provide for the first time the entire coverage of the moon, including its polar regions. The lunar mission also gains importance in the light of space tourism and as an alternative establishment for human civilization due to the burgeoning population ...
More Information about Chandrayaan
2007-10-03 16:20:00 The primary objective of the Chandrayaan-I mission is high resolution remote sensing of the moon in visible, near infrared, low energy X-rays and high energy X-ray regions. To know more about specific objectives, spacecraft, payloads, ground segment and launch vehicle of Chandrayaan, visit the official ISRO site given below. ISRO?s Official Site about Chandrayaan You can also get very good information on Wikipedia. The direct link is given below. Wikipedia Information on Chandrayaan Videos on ChandrayaanOfficial Video about the lunar mission had been released. The video gives lot of information about the mission objectives, how the lunar craft is going to be launched, the trajectory it is going to follow before placing it in the orbit and the data we are going to get about the moon from the payloads on board. This is a nice video. Watch it!ISRO Video on ChandrayaanThejes Inc, has done a another good video about Chandrayaan. The video gives details about the launch vehicle, th...
How Chandrayaan Started?
2007-10-02 10:59:00 Chandrayaan is a common name for all moon missions by India. Chandrayaan-I is the first mission where a lunar craft will be launched using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The lunar craft will orbit around the moon at a distance of 100 km from the moon?s surface. The idea of moon mission was considered in a meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1999. The idea was then discussed in the Astronautical Society of India in 2000. Based on the recommendations of the members of these scientific groups to ISRO, National Lunar Mission Task Force was formed. Leading Indian scientists and technologists participated in the Task Force and discussed the feasibility of the mission. The Task Force recommended that given the technical expertise of ISRO it will be extreme worthwhile to plan an Indian Mission to the Moon. It also provided primary scientific objectives of such a mission as well as launch and spacecraft technologies that need to be developed. About 100 eminent ...
ISRO Missions In The Near Future
2007-09-29 21:48:00 With more and more successful missions every year, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is not just going to schedule only four missions every year like this year. Right now, ISRO has 60 proposed missions. With Chandrayaan-I mission next year, India will become only the fourth country to involve in a lunar venture. On the proposed 60 missions, a series of communication satellites including Oceansat and the radar imaging satellite had been lined up to meet national needs. Ten missions will increase capacity of our communication satellite from 200 to 500 transponders and about 10-12 missions are earth observation satellites. Also, between 2009 an 2011, a series of seven satellites for an independent, stand-alone constellation called Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is to be launched. These satellites would help ships, aircrafts and vehicles in navigation. The satellite design had been completed with total project cost of about Rs.1600 crore.
Chandrayaan in Shaastra
2007-09-25 20:11:00 Chandrayaan, India's first moon mission is all set for launch in February next year. It is one of our Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam's visions. With successful launch of our satellite INSAT-4CR by Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F04), Chandrayaan project has gained momentum and gained lot of foreign participation and attention. This is the first time various agencies including National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA) work under a project headed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).So, what does this mean for a developing country like ours? What information is this craft going to provide which its predecessors like 'The Ranger' haven?t? What is the effort that is going into it?Shaastra, the annual technical festival of IIT Madras scheduled from October 3 to 7, has answers to all these questions. It is the only ISO 9001:2000 certified student-organised event in the world. Shaastra is organising Chandrayaan workshop featuring le... |
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