Chandrayaan-I - ISRO Lunar polar orbiter

Yang Liwei Rocket · 2006-03-06 18:57:35

The Indian space agency is almost set to send an unmanned spacecraft to the Moon which will then take a polar orbit. Space technology has allowed the nation of India to move into the world of high technology, a place previously occupied only by more-developed nations. Indian launch vehicles include the Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV), the Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). Indian cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma spent eight days in 1984 aboard the USSR's space station Salyut-7. India will be launching ist moon missions, ISRO's 525-kg Orbiter, scheduled for launch by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 2007, would hover at 100 km over the moon to gather data on mineral resources and water.During two years, it is supposed to survey the lunar surface to produce a complete map of its chemical characteristics and 3-dimensional topography.
http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2137
India to launch lunar exploration vehicle Chandrayan-I in 2007-08

EuroLauncher · 2006-03-18 02:10:23

Bush's India visit expands technology partnerships

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/show … =181500603

President George Bush’s visit to India has yielded a range of bilateral partnerships in technology, aerospace and intellectual property.
During a visit to Hyderabad on Friday (March 3), Bush also said there would be no curbs on outsourcing from the U.S., stating that he was in favor of more competition, not less.

Bush finalised the agreement with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a year of preparation by the two countries.
The deal was drawn up by a joint working group formed in June to look at expanding civil space co-operation. The group is led by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) satellite centre director P S Goel and US State Department principal deputy assistant secretary Anthony Rock.

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/03/14/

“An agreement has been reached that will permit US satellites and satellites containing US components to be launched by Indian space launch vehicles,” says the US-Indian joint statement. ISRO has been expecting NASA to provide instrumentation for its Chandrayaan-1 Moon probe, set for launch in early 2008.

The Indo-US deal on space research and application would usher in an era of joint exploration between the space agencies of the two nations, former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Kasturirangan said today.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Indo_ … ation.html

"We have signed a deal and this would enable both ISRO and NASA for future joint space explorations including Mars and other inter-planetary missions," Kasturirangan, also the director of National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore said here last evening at the 47th foundation day of the Indian Institute of Technology.

EuroLauncher · 2006-03-19 02:07:58

Making money outsourcing NASA to India

?

Mars_B4_Moon · 2006-04-07 20:33:39

Making money outsourcing NASA to India

maybe not

...Reviewing the progress made in deepening the global partnership between the United States and India since their Joint Statement of July 18, 2005, the President and the Prime Minister reaffirm their commitment to expand even further the growing ties between their two countries. Consistent with this objective, the two leaders wish to highlight efforts the United States and India are making together in the following areas, where they have:

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-us-india … 439459.htm

(3) Agreed to continue exploring further cooperation in civil space, including areas such as space exploration, satellite navigation, and earth science. The United States and India committed to move forward with agreements that will permit the launch of U.S. satellites and satellites containing U.S. components by Indian space launch vehicles, opening up new opportunities for commercial space cooperation between the two countries.

(4) Welcomed the inclusion of two U.S. instruments in the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. They noted that memoranda of understanding to be signed by ISRO and NASA would be significant steps forward in this area...

and now a word from the silly people

India and China receiving warning from Extraterrestrial civilizations on the mission to moon?
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/7379.asp
India Daily Technology Team

Mars_B4_Moon · 2006-11-23 22:52:17

outsourcing NASA to India ???
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? … 09/1914236
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/10-05c-04.asp

American Astronut : 'New Delhi we have a problem'

Automated Arjun-Raj : I'm sorry our call centers are busy, please hold

Mars_B4_Moon · 2006-11-23 22:55:00

The Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) has proposed starting a human spaceflight program, with the first manned flight taking place by 2014 leading up to landing an Indian national on the Moon by 2020, ahead of China.
http://www.space.com/news/061110_india_mannedspace.html
The controversial recommendation marks a huge shift in ISRO’s oft repeated policy that it will use space technology for national development needs such as telecommunications, health care, education and environmental monitoring. In the past the agency has stayed away from manned flight because of the huge costs involved.
“That policy – pronounced four decades ago by Vikram Sarabai, father of India’s space program — had to change for two reasons,” ISRO chairman Gopalan Madhavan Nair said in a Nov. 9 interview.

cIclops · 2006-11-24 03:31:14

The Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) has proposed starting a human spaceflight program, with the first manned flight taking place by 2014 leading up to landing an Indian national on the Moon by 2020, ahead of China.
http://www.space.com/news/061110_india_mannedspace.html

That article is very vague, it seems to be based on this article Indian Space agency ISRO planning an indigenous manned space mission

On asking how realistic are the plans for ISRO to send a person to space by 2014 and to have a person walk on the moon by 2020 ? Nair said "if we have to have a manned mission we have to develop a host of new technologies. There has to be the human habitat to be prepared which can withstand the environments of space."
He countinues "We have to set up new laboratories and new initiatives but these development cycles can be managed. Our estimate shows it will take some seven to eight years before we can have the first manned orbital mission."

2020 for a human lunar landing is very ambitious for a relativly poor country that is eight years away from human spaceflight.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2007-02-07 16:01:54

India To Launch Moon Lander Mission
India plans to undertake another mission to moon aided with a proper lander that would soft land on the lunar surface after its scheduled unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, early next year, the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted India's space agency chief as saying here.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2007-02-28 10:15:05

Rediff and ISRO design India's first Mooncraft
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Redi … 9-643.html

Mars_B4_Moon · 2007-03-13 22:56:17

Scientists to begin satellite integration for Moon mission
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/40 … 021452.htm

Mars_B4_Moon · 2007-05-23 04:29:19

India's Successful Commercial Satellite Launch
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? … 24/1835207

some info on Chandrayaan
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3852690.html

American outsourcing to India is approaching a new frontier: outer space.
Indian and U.S. space agencies signed an agreement Tuesday in India's high-tech hub of Bangalore to fly two American lunar mapping instruments on India's unmanned mission to orbit the moon, scheduled for 2008.
Since sending a U.S. spacecraft to the moon again remains a possibility only in the distant future, NASA is taking advantage of India's more immediate, lower-cost plans for space exploration.
The joint space venture also is part of the Bush administration's effort to forge a close strategic partnership with India, which includes a proposed deal on civilian nuclear cooperation that is awaiting approval by Congress.
"There was a period of time between our nations where, because of nuclear proliferation issues and other factors, the ability to cooperate on technical matters was less strong than it is today," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said after signing the deal with G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.
President Bush's effort to resolve those issues "has contributed greatly to future possibilities and I'm happy to be a small part of that," added Griffin, the first NASA chief to visit India in 30 years.
India is in a new space race with neighboring economic giant China, which plans to send its own lunar orbiter to map the moon's surface in 2007, followed by a robotic rover by 2012.
China became the third country to achieve manned spaceflight in October 2003 when it sent an astronaut to orbit Earth.
Under Tuesday's agreement with NASA, India's $89 million mission to orbit the moon for two years will include U.S. scientific payloads searching for ice in polar areas under permanent shadow and mapping minerals on the moon's surface.
Indian-made devices
They will be among 15 to 20 instruments on the spacecraft, including 11 made in India, such as a moon impact probe that will crash on the lunar surface.
The European Space Agency plans to provide three more devices. Another will come from Bulgaria. The Indian spacecraft is expected to orbit 62 miles above the lunar surface.
Beyond improving ties with India, the Bush administration wants to prepare for the possibility of sending U.S. astronauts back to the moon, as well as a possible manned mission to Mars one day.
India's first rocket to the moon, called Chandrayaan-1, will be one of its towering four-stage Polar Space Launch Vehicles, which India has used in the past to launch satellites into Earth's orbit.

cIclops · 2007-05-23 10:35:47

India's Successful Commercial Satellite Launch
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? … 24/1835207
some info on Chandrayaan
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3852690.html
American outsourcing to India is approaching a new frontier: outer space.

This is such typical media new speak. The meaning of the word "outsourcing" is redefined and used to discredit something perfectly sensible. NASA has flown instruments on other agency spacecraft for a long time, there is no cash payment for this, this is NOT outsourcing in the sense of paying for work to be done elsewhere. It's a deliberate misrepresentation, commonly known as a lie.

cIclops · 2007-11-11 05:28:37

April 2008 launch

DATE:09/11/07
SOURCE:Flightglobal.com
India sets lunar probe launch for 9 April 2008
By Radhakrishna Rao
India plans to complete the integration of its first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, by year-end, to meet the scheduled launch date on 9 April 2008.
The lunar orbiter, which will also feature an Indian-made Moon impact probe (MIP), is to be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre by an augmented version of the indigenous four stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Project director M Annadurai says Chandrayaan-1 will map the entire lunar surface as it circles the Moon at an altitude of 100km (62 miles) during its two-year mission. In addition to 11 scientific payloads - five from India and six from abroad - the MIP is planned to provide the Indian Space Research Organisation with expertise to develop future lunar landers.
Chandrayaan-2, a follow-on mission expected to be launched around 2011-12, will have a soft lander carrying a robotic rover.
"On reaching lunar orbit, Chandrayaan-1 will be reoriented, leading to the ejection of MIP, which carries an on-board motor," says Annadurai. "And as the MIP speeds towards the Moon its video camera will take pictures of the lunar surface."
Meanwhile, the 32m (105ft) dish antenna of the deep-space communications network to support Chandrayaan-1 and other ISRO planetary probes, including a Mars mission, will be installed soon at Bylalu village near Bangalore.

Yang Liwei Rocket · 2008-01-12 00:05:01

" Europe is supplying three instruments for the mission. "
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM6563MDAF_index_0.html

cIclops · 2008-02-13 08:29:08

launch postponed

MUMBAI: The much-awaited Indian moon mission - Chandrayaan-1 - slated for an April 9 lift-off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, has been postponed to June or July because of technical reasons.
"A number of issues relating to the integration of the scientific payloads with the main lunar orbiter are yet to be sorted out and this has caused the delay," Chandrayaan-1 project director Mylaswamy Annadurai said.
Annadurai said of the 11 scientific payloads - five Indian and six foreign - four international payloads have been integrated into the orbiter. "The remaining seven are in an advanced stage of integration, and the process will be completed by March end," Annadurai said.

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