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India Gearing Up For Chandrayaan Mission
Hyderabad (SPX) Aug 19, 2005 India is gearing up for its planned Moon mission Chandrayaan two years from now, with top scientists from the country recently gathering in Hyderabad to discuss the design system of the 32 metre diametre deep space network ground station antenna for the mission. "This antenna will serve as an important component system of the ground support and is currently being finalised at a meeting organised by ECIL and ISRO, and top scientists from the field of space and technology," ECIL Chairman and Managing Director, G P Srivastava, told reporters recently. "The first of its kind antenna in the country will send signals to the moon mission which will be four lakh kilometres above earth. The moon mission aims at filling information gap that exist about the geology and origin of the moon", Srivastava said. A K Gupta Director, ECIL, and S K Shivkumar, ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), who were present at the press conference, said that Chandrayaan is the first Indian mission to the moon for undertaking high resolution remote sensing of the lunar surface, aimed at determining the evolutionary process of the moon by studying the mineral and chemical structure of its surface. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links ISRO SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Mars News and Information at MarsDaily.com Lunar Dreams and more
SMART 1 Uses New Imaging Technique In Lunar Orbit
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 28, 2005ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft has been surveying the Moon's surface in visible and near-infrared light using a new technique, never before tried in lunar orbit. |
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