“Aditya,” the lunar probe from India’s first unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has landed on the moon and started sending its first images. Its landing on the Moon’s South Pole at 7:10 Pacific Time was aimed to kick up some dust, which instruments in the craft will analyze. It has already started sending images to the [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2008 by Gunjan
At 3:21 am Pacific Daylight Time on November 8, India’s moon probe was successfully inserted into orbit around the moon.
The Chandrayaan-1 probe liquid engine was fired when the spacecraft passed at a distance of about 500 km from the moon to reduce its velocity to enable lunar gravity to capture it into an orbit around [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Gunjan
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Gunjan
India’s first lunar probe, named Chandrayaan-1, is all set to launch from Sriharikota on the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, October 22. The $83 million mission is expected to orbit the moon for two years and carries 11 instruments on board, including two from the United States.
Weather permitting, the countdown will begin on October 18, [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Gunjan
If the weather cooperates, India will launch its first probe to the moon on Wednesday, October 22nd. The $83 million mission will carry two NASA instruments, including a Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3). M3 was built by Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Gunjan
