Chandrayaan - indian mission to moon

ISRO said that it would undertake "extremely good" experiments and try out new technologies. (via Hindustan times)

Weight limitation is overall boundary within which we have to work", Prof U R Rao, who chaired the national committee of experts drawn from ISRO centres, academic institutions and R&D laboratories which finalised the payloads to be flown on board Chandrayaan-2 (orbiter and rover), told PTI.

Well as ISRO deliberate their "extremely good" experiments, I ask you, the would be aerospace engineers of India, to fire up your imagination engine and tell us what experiments will you put on Chandrayaan 2?

The 52-hour countdown for Chandrayaan-1 - India's first unmanned moon mission – has began at Sriharikota spaceport early on Monday for Wednesday's historic launch.

The integrated launch vehicle has already been moved into the second launch pad (umbilical tower) and launch rehearsals are underway, sources in India Space Research Organisation at Bangalore said.

"All the preparatory work is going as usual and the formal countdown would begin tomorrow morning about 0400 hrs," Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) Associate Director Dr M Y S Prasad told PTI at Chennai.

"All the work including the checking of payloads went satisfactorily. The spacecraft launch would take place as per the schedule," he said.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chandrayaan is Scheduled to launch on October 22nd if weather God permits. Here in this post I am publishing some quick facts of the mission that will help you understand the mission better.

It will answer some  quick questions that a kid might have for the mission. Here's wishing ISRO a grand success!

what do you think of this mission? How will it help India? what will its impact. Do tell me in your comments!!

Well the world is eagerly waiting for the chandrayaan mission launch but it seems everyone in ISRO is busy preparing for the launch of chandrayaan on October 22nd 2008.

See the screenshot of the ISRO’s official chandrayaan site its shows its last updated on January 16 2007!!! Yes 2007 !!!!

Hope it will be updated soon!!!

Wishing ISRO a grand success in this particular mission!!!!

By now everyone knows Chandrayaan-1, Indian's first spacecraft to get go to moon is about to launch on October 22nd 2008!! but a site called hubdub.com is running an interesting silly prediction  that aims to answer the question ?

“Will India’s chandrayaan-1 probe will successfully send data from lunar orbit?”

Will India's Chandrayaan-1 probe successfully send data from lunar orbit?

The flash widget above shows the real-time data of the prediction.

I am 100% sure it will be a successful mission. India has done it all alone and I know they will fulfill all mission requirements and objectives.

What do you say?

Related : check out videos of chandrayaan mission  and cool wallpapers of chandrayaan

India's maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, is scheduled to take off from Sriharikota at 6.20 am on October 22, ISRO officials said on Monday.
"We are definitely targeting October 22. But if the weather becomes unfavorable, we will postpone the launch to October 23. The window of opportunity will remain open till October 26.We are keeping our fingers crossed and praying that the weather gods will be on our side on October 22," an official said.

now that you have seen so many videos and other stuff about the chandrayaan mission. Read this small article to understand the mission better.

Economic times reports that a convoy of eight vehicles, including a trailer carrying the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, will depart from the ISRO Satellite Centre on Airport Road early on Thursday and arrive at Sriharikota on Friday evening. The convoy will proceed to the Sriharikota launch centre via Kolar, Mulbagal, Palamnair, Gadanki and Kalahasthi.

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Chandrayaan, India's historic moon mission, will be launched between October 22 and October 26. Director of the Indian Space Research Organisation's Satellite Centre Dr T K Alex and Project Director of the Chandrayaan-I mission Dr Anna Durai informed media persons at Bengaluru on Thursday that the exact date for the launch has not been fixed, but the window period is between October 22 and 26.

Well you have seen how chandrayaan will look like in CAD models. here's how it looks now.

Calling the NSG waiver a big achievement for the country, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair today said it will help the Indian space department access latest space technologies from developed nation. "It is a major achievement for India. We will have a better opportunity to interact with other developed nations on sharing certain space technologies," Nair told reporters on the sidelines of a function at SRM University here.




He said the signing of the 123 Agreement with the US will in a way help the ISRO work closely with the NASA.

On the "Chandrayaan-I" (moon) mission, Nair said all the technical parameters for the launch were progressing well and the launch "is expected by this October end".

He said the country's space department has world-class technologies to provide valuable inputs to tackle natural disasters.

"We have been monitoring the floods in Bihar. The National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad has been receiving updates from a Canadian radar imaging satellite. We are providing satellite images of the inundated areas to the Army for rescue operations," he added.

Earlier, Nair was conferred a honorary Doctorate of Science by the SRM University for his outstanding contribution to the Indian Space Programme. PTI

Buoyed by its success in placing eight nanosatellites in prescribed orbits, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to stage another feat by launching 100 nano-sats at one go. Scientists at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, are preparing elaborate drawings to make this event happen some two years from now.


The ISRO has already intimated universities world wide about the project and has extended an open invite to any varsity to take part in the historic venture. Within the country, the IITs in Kanpur and Mumbai were among the first to express interest along with ISRO’s Indian Institute of Space Science at Thiruvananthapuram. The Madurai Kamaraj University is already in the process of fabricating its satellite.

Chandrayaan update is that it might launch in Mid October.

At the nondescript village Byalalu, 40 km off Bangalore, which smacks of poverty and underdevelopment, is this Rs 100 crore Deep Space Network (DSN) set up by the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network to track the country's first unmanned spacecraft for the Moon mission project, Chandrayaan-1.




Chandrayaan being scheduled for October (the September schedule has been postponed), the countdown has already begun for DSN. The station is the back-end support system and spacecraft signal monitoring unit set up on a 135-acre plot.

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The DSN gains importance, more so, after the spacecraft crosses 1 lakh km-distance from Earth as other ISRO stations can monitor only up to this distance. The spacecraft, once launched, takes 300 hours to orbit the Moon and has a lifespan of about two years.

The DSN has the indigenous 32-metre dia dish antenna, a joint venture of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and the Electronics Corporation of India Limited which is the biggest so far in India. Another small antenna - 18 mtr dia - is a back-up for the big dish. Both the antennae will play a key role in Chandrayaan-1 and also Chandrayaan-2, the second Indian Moon mission, slated for a launch after about four years.
Source : times of india

India hopes to launch its maiden mission to the moon -- Chandrayaan-I -- this year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in his independence day speech.

"This year we hope to send an Indian spacecraft, Chandrayaan, to the moon," Singh said in his Independence Day address to the nation from the rampart of the majestic Red Fort.

Singh said the launch of Chandrayaan will be an important milestone in the development of the country's space programme.

The unmanned mission, which will orbit the moon for two years, is expected to be launched in October by indigenously developed Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Srihariko

Business standard reports how the kanpur IIT is emerging as the top industrial consultant for the indian industry. Aerospace figures a major group in all this activities. It is choicest consultants for many prestigious projects in government and private sectors.


So what is the connection of IIT-K with chnadrayaan? The professors of IIT kanpur are providing advice and assistance to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to realise the proposed Indian lunar mission, ‘Chandrayaan’.

Also one of the instrument,LLRI is a laser ranging instrument on board of chandrayaan-1 is coming from IIT kanpur. As Chandrayaan will orbit the moon at an altitude of around 100 km, LLRI transmits laser pulses of nano-second length towards the Moon surface at a frequency of 10 Hz. By measuring the co-ordinates of laser pulses on the Moon surface the 3D model of Moon can be produced. With 0.5mrad half divergence angle the laser pulse will have a footprint of 100m diameter on the surface of Moon from an altitude of 100km.

And also ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation, is planning to send a robot for its mission to moon. It is probably going to be made by students and profs of IIT-Kanpur The two-legged robot, fitted with sophisticated sensors and high-resolution cameras, is capable of recording information and images using laser beams. It can also detect the distance of a hindrance, enter a small crater, bring surface samples and return high resolution images to the lunar vehicle. It balances cost and sophistication; basic functionality for only $50,000.

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The launch of Chandrayaan, India’s moon mission project, will be delayed past the scheduled date of September 18 to mid-October, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said in CHENNAI on Wednesday.


He said that the systems had already been fully integrated and that thermo-vacuum tests would be conducted soon. The launch would be possible about 45 to 60 days after that.

Alignments were the key to a successful launch along with climate conditions. Only about three days each month would provide favourable alignments, he said.


Source: the hindu

Do you know what is the most less talked about features of the chandrayaan mission?

We all talk about India’s giant leap that it will take after the launch of chandrayaan mission. Its will not only put Indian space program to limelight but also enhance the space prowness of Indian space program. But what is the less talked about feature of this whole chandrayaan mission.

It’s the 64-pound impactor that will be dropped from the orbiting chandrayaan spacecraft for a suicidal nosedive into the moon. The impactor as it falls towards the moon’s soil will relay video imagery, altitude information and spectral data back to Earth through the Chandrayaan mothership, which will be in a lunar orbit 100 kilometers away.

To my knowledge this will be the first Indian thing that will touch the moon’s soil!

In what way will this Moon Impact Probe be useful for future missions?
G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, answered this

The impactor is essentially to evaluate the lunar trajectories. When we send the spacecraft to the moon, the gravitational field will have a strong influence on its [the spacecraft's] orbit. We have some inputs available on this based on past missions. But when the spacecraft orbits the moon we will get some data on this. Using these, we will try to define a trajectory for the impactor. That will be one of our major experiments. As the impactor descends, it will take closer pictures of the lunar surface and when it impacts, it will kick up some dust. Using the mass spectrometer, we will be able to get the signature related to the composition of the material that covers the lunar surface. This is the first step towards later missions, which that will require a soft landing and a robot, experimental set-up to analyse and return the data.

ISRO's chief spokesperson, S Satish, on Thursday at the launch of the Nehru Planetarium's new show, "Conquest of the moon and the secrets of the sun." said that as part of the public outreach programme relating to India's maiden voyage to the moon, "Chandrayaan-1," Isro plans to conduct essay and poster competitions for youngsters in different cities.


He told TOI that Isro is aiming for a launch date of September 19, 2008, for Chandrayaan. "But, the final date will be decided towards the end of this month," he said, while pointing out that the launch can be conducted till October 16, 2008.

Preparations for kicking off the Chandrayaan launch campaign at Sriharikota have been initiated and the lunar satellite is undergoing various tests at the Isro Satellite Centre. The launch campaign is slated to take off 50 days prior to the lift off.

Source : times of india

This are the two wallpapers of chandrayaan that i have made with my limited skills in photoshop. Hope you like it. I will be making more as and when i get time and inspiration.



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Indian and Russian are going to revive the joint manned mission project. Rakesh sharma, India's first astronaut, rode to the SALYUT 7 space station 24 years ago and now after the chandrayaan mission in mid-september, India's indigenous manned mission will go into top gear.


Both countries have formed a joint working committee to work out details. The panel is headed by Dr P S Sastry, director of the Advanced Technology Office and Launch Vehicle Programmes of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).


The salient aspect of the new mission will be its flexibility about the crew.

“We won’t restrict it to just Air Force pilots. It will be a nationwide search. And cosmonauts who satisfy basic parameters will be shortlisted,” sources said.

The idea is to select 200 prospective candidates for a second level of screening after the preliminary survey. “We will prepare a list of 20 people. The best two will fly on Soyuz in three years to spend some time on the International Space Station,” sources said.

After the initial training in India, the crew will go to Russia to train with other members of the project. The revival of the joint mission gives ISRO a chance to install infrastructure needed for its own programme.

“The selection process will help us to prepare our own policy for the crew for the Indian mission. We will be able to learn and write a new text with the help of Russians who are experienced in manned missions,” sources said.

A detailed report of the Rs 10,000 crore project has been submitted to the government and the design of the space craft is complete. India plans to conduct three more experimental flights of its Space Recovery Experiment capsule to perfect re-entry techniques.

When is Chandrayaan-1 launch? This is the question everyone is asking! First ISRO declared 9th april as chandrayaan launch date. Then it got delayed. Reason? To prepare the integration work. Now ISRO chief Nair, stated that chandrayaan launch will be in September. Though the date is not fixed but speculation is that it might be on September 19th!


So the whole world is waiting for chandrayaan launch! Its india's first mission to the moon. In fact its first isro mission that will take something so far from earth.
I have been following mission since the time i knew about it and here are some links that will help you understand this mission better.

Have a look at the pictures of chandrayaan. Know about the chandrayaan the spacecraft here. If you are interested in chandrayaan mission objectives click here. If you believe in seeing a video of the mission then this video of the mission will interest you.

Wondering what is the logic of india's sending chandrayaan to moon? read it here. If wondering Why go to moon? click here

But who will take chandrayaan to moon, yes PSLV, India's most successful launch vehicle. See and read about the launcher and its world record.

If all this talk ignites your interest in indian space program, then this link is for you. See the timeline of indian space program here from slv to chandrayaan.

Indian's moon mission is not only about india but it involves NASA, Europe and Russia

This post was my attempt to guide you to the relevant information you might like to read from this blog. Hope i succeeded. Do let me know in comments?