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 |  Subject: Chandrayaan –I: India'S moon mission launched successfully Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:55 am | |
| Chandrayaan –I: India'S moon mission launched successfully
As a precursor to the festival of lights, the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) staged its very own rocket show today with the
launch of Chandrayaan-I satellite.
Chandrayaan-I, India's first
unmanned moon mission satellite vehicle, successfully blasted off at
around 6.20 a.m, on October 22, 2008, from the second launch pad of the
Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, some 80 kms from Chennai.
Chandrayaan-1,
(roughly translated as "Moon Craft-1") will carry 11 payloads,
including a terrain mapping and mineralogical camera from India and a
European Space Agency instrument that will capture images of the moon
and analyze its magnetic surface.
This is
India's first unmanned moon mission and is scheduled to last for two
years. The project is expected to prepare a three-dimensional atlas of
the moon and prospect its surface for natural resources, including
uranium, a coveted fuel for nuclear power plants, according to the
Indian Space Research Organization.
The
spaceship is scheduled to go into orbit 100 kilometers (62 miles) above
the moon on November. 8 or November. 9, mapping the lunar terrain and
mineral composition. The craft will also release a probe to take
close-range images during a 25-minute descent to the surface.
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| | Subject: Re: Chandrayaan –I: India'S moon mission launched successfully Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:07 am | |
| After circling the Earth in its Initial Orbit for a while,
Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is taken into two more elliptical orbits whose
apogees lie still higher at 37,000 km and 73,000 km respectively. This
is done at opportune moments by firing the spacecraft's Liquid Apogee
Motor (LAM) when the spacecraft is near perigee. |
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