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At 7:08 am on October 26, 2008, when the spacecraft Chandrayaan-I pushed beyond the 1.5 lakh-km mark in space, it depended on a 32-metre antenna in a quiet saucer-shaped valley about 40 km from Bangalore near a village called Byalalu. At that distance
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), one of the 11 payloads on board India's Chandrayaan-I spacecraft, has taken composite image of the Orientale Basin region of the moon providing new information, the officials said. Different wavelengths of light in the image was captured by M3, during the commissioning phase of Chandrayaan-I, …
Will help maintain network across countries The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reached new heights today with the launching of a satellite, built jointly by ISRO and EADS-Astrium, which will help in maintaining communication network across Europe, West Asia and North Africa. The state of the art communication satellite, W2M, …
After the historic moon mission, India will redesign Russian space capsule Soyuz to send its astronauts on the country's maiden manned space mission. "We will be redesigning the Soyuz space capsule of the Russian agency for our mission," said Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman G Madhavan Nair. Isro signed …
A week before the launch it looked like the most unlikely place to house the all-important Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) for the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter mission. The ISSDC is intended to be, according to the website of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),
Chandrayaan-1, the unmanned mission sent by India for exploration of moon, has won a prestigious international award. The International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) chose the Chandrayaan-1 team for giving the International Cooperation award, M, Annadurai, project director, Chandrayaan-1, said here today. The ILEWG is a public forum sponsored by …
From the outside, the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network Centre (ISTRAC) at Peenya, Bangalore, looks like any other government office. But it is a different story inside
The spacecraft, integrated with its payloads, was tested for three months for communication between instruments and with the ground. ISRO CHANDRAYAAN-1 underwent a series of tests for several weeks at the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore. It was broiled at temperatures of above 120 degrees Celsius, subjected to freezing conditions …
Sending a spacecraft on a lunar mission involves navigating it, controlling it and communicating with it as it travels deep into space towards the moon. The moon
Chandrayaan-1 is moving closer to the moon and is expected to enter its lunar orbit on November 15. The earth as seen by Chandrayaan-1 from a height of 70,000 km. This image, the second taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera of the spacecraft on October 29, shows Australia's southern coast. …
It was up and away in a plume of fire almost before the human eye could capture it, with the promise of putting the Indian tricolour on the moon by mid-November. The 1,380 kg Chandrayaan-1, the country
