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The above flash shows the landing of the Impact Probe.. This Flash File is taken from ISRO Website and is displayed for informative purpose only. |
India launched the spacecraft using a modified version of the PSLV C11 on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The vehicle was successfully inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008. It carries high-resolution remote sensing equipment for visible, near infrared, and soft and hard X-ray frequencies. Over its two-year operational period, it is intended to survey the lunar surface to produce a complete map of its chemical characteristics and 3-dimensional topography. The polar regions
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Many Milestones in The Never Ending Journey.
This Image Shows the PSLV getting ready for Chandrayaan-1 |
Please Use the below links to download various resources about Chandrayaan. These documents are provided at ISRO website. These links are direct links of ISRO website. Is the Mission A Success???The success of the Mission can be testified by the fact that- |
Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharikota by PSLV-XL (PSLV-C11) on 22 October 2008 at 06:22 hrs IST in an highly elliptical initial orbit (IO) with perigee (nearest point to the Earth) of 255 km and an apogee (farthest point from the Earth) of 22,860 km, inclined at an angle of 17.9 deg to the equator. In this initial orbit, Chandrayaan orbited the Earth once in about six and a half hours.
Subsequently, the spacecraft's Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) firing was done on 23 October at 09:00 hrs IST, when the spacecraft was near perigee, to raise the apogee to 37,900 km while the perigee to 305 km. The spacecraft took eleven hours to go round the Earth once.
The orbit was further raised to 336 km x 74,715 km on 25 October at 05:48 hrs IST. In this orbit, spacecraft took about twenty-five and a half hours to orbit the Earth once.
The LAM was fired again on 26 October at 07:08 hrs IST to take the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to extremely high elliptical orbit with apogee 164,600 km and perigee at 348 km. Chandrayaan-1 took about 73 hours to go round the Earth once.
On 29 October, orbit raising was carried out at 07:38 hrs IST to raise the apogee to 267,000 km and perigee to 465 km. Chandrayaan’s present orbit extends more than half the way to moon and takes about six days to orbit the Earth.
On 4 November at 04:56 hrs IST, Chandrayaan entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory with an apogee of 380,000 km.
On 8 November at 16:51 hrs IST, the spacecraft’s Liquid engine was fired to reduce its velocity to insert the spacecraft in the lunar orbit (LOI) and enable lunar gravity to capture it. As a result, the spacecraft was in an elliptical orbit with periselene (nearest point to the moon) of 504 km and aposelene (farthest point from the moon) of 7,502 km.
The first orbit reduction manoeuvre was carried out successfully on 9 November at 20:03 hrs IST. Thus the spacecraft was in lunar orbit with 200 km periselene. The aposelene remains unchanged (i.e 7,502 km).
After careful and detailed observation, a series of three orbit reduction manoeuvres were successfully carried out and the spacecraft’s orbit was reduced to its intended operational 100 km circular polar orbit on November 12.
On 14 November at 20:06 hrs IST, the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) was ejected from the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and hard landed on the lunar surface near the South Polar Region at 20:31 hrs IST after 25 minutes journey. It placed the Indian tricolour, which was pasted on the sides of MIP on the Moon.
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in its twentieth flight PSLV C-18 proved its reliability and consistency by successfully launching four satellites with a total pay load of 1047 kgs from Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC) - SHAR, Sriharikota on 12th october 2011. The four satellites are Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French mission to study the weather and climate in the tropical regions of the world; SRMSat, built by students of SRM University, near Chennai; Jugnu, put together by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur students; and VesselSat from Luxembourg...
Date: 12 Oct 2011 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 331/Rating:3.6
It is yet another successful launch for the ISRO's workhorse PSLV. India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17) successfully launched GSAT-12 communication satellite today (July 15, 2011) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. The launch of PSLV-C17 was the eighteenth successive successful flight of PSLV out of total nineteen flights.
After a smooth countdown of 53 hours, the vehicle lifted-off from the Second Launch Pad at the opening of the launch window at 16:48 hrs (IST). After about 20 minutes of flight time, GSAT-12 was successfully injected into sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (sub-GTO) with a perigee of 284 km and an apogee of 21,020 km with an orbital inclination of 17.9 deg.
Date: 17 Jul 2011 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1073/Rating:3.8
It was a perfect launch. At exactly 02.08 a.m. Indian time on Saturday, from Kourou, French Guiana the 800-tonne Ariane 5 launcher carrying two communications satellites weighing over 9000 kilos in its nose fairing, blasted off into space. India’s GSAT-8, the largest and heaviest satellite built by ISRO and its partners weighing 3,100 kg , was one of the two "co-passengers" on the flight. The other, an even heavier satellite weighing 5 tonnes was from Singapore and Taiwan.
Date: 21 May 2011 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1027/Rating:3.8 / Comments:
Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India's fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). The supercomputing facility named as Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility is located at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram. The new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based supercomputer named "SAGA-220" (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS) is being used by space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems. The supercomputer SAGA-220 was inaugurated by Dr K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO today at VSSC...
Date: 4 May 2011 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 802/Rating:5 / Comments:
The eighteenth mission of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C16) turned out to be a success on Wednesday, with the rocket placing the 1206 kg Indian Remote Sensing satellite RESOURCESAT-2 as well as 92 kg Indo-Russian YOUTHSAT and the 106 kg X-SAT of Singapore, which are auxiliary payloads – into an 822 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). This was also the seventeenth consecutively successful launch of the PSLV, which has become the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) workhorse...
Date: 20 Apr 2011 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 844/Rating:2.8
It happened to be a disaster - when the launch was scheduled today evening - all awaiting eyes have cheered the smooth lifting , but no one expected it to be a disaster...
Launch of India's latest communication satellite GSAT-5P onboard homegrown GSLV-F06, powered by Russian cryogenic engine, failed today when the rocket developed a snag soon after lift-off from the spaceport here...
Date: 25 Dec 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 666/Rating:3
So it's Christmas time , and celebrations are in every corner . Not less in India , which being a secular country not only Christians but also other people join to celebrate the X-mas . So Candles and prayers may mark the day . But ISRO is planning to celebrate in quiet a different way - by launching it's heaviest satellite to date ,GSAT - 5P on board GSLV - F06 
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Date: 23 Dec 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 828/Rating:3
An advanced communication satellite HYLAS (Highly Adaptable Satellite) built by ISRO on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe, was successfully launched on November 27, 2010 at 00.09 hours Indian Standard Time (IST) by the European Ariane-5 V198 launch vehicle. It has successfully reached the geostationary orbit...
Date: 1 Dec 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 792/Rating:4
After a successful Chandrayaan I mission ISRO is now all geared up for Chandrayaan II. India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 had accomplished nearly 95 per cent of its scientific objectives and is considered a success internationally. It's on board NASA instrument made a buzz by confirming the presence of water/ice on Moon.
The Chandrayaan mission II is targeted in 2013. ISRO recently finalised the payloads that are to be flown onboard Chandrayaan II . Chandrayaan 2 will have an orbiter (satellite), a lander and a rover. Chandrayaan-2 is planned to be launched onboard Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. While the lander will be provided by Russia, the orbiter and the rover are being built by ISRO....
Date: 6 Sep 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1494/Rating:3
PSLV proved it again .The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C-15 carrying remote sensing Cartosat-2B along with four satellites blasted off from the spaceport near here on Monday morning...
Date: 12 Jul 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1132/Rating:5
PSLV-C15 is the 17th flight of ISRO's versatile Polar Satellite launch vehicle, PSLV. In this PSLV will place the 694 kg CARTOSAT-2B and four auxiliary payloads in a 630 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) . ISRO recently announced that the schedule launch of PSLV-C15 will be on 12th july. ..
Date: 10 Jul 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1591/Rating:4.5 / Comments:
Senior Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists, who met at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram to examine the reasons for the failure of the GSLV-D3 mission with indigenous cryogenic upper stage, on Sunday ascertained that contrary to initial reports the cryogenic stage had doubtless ignited in the vacuum of the space...
Date: 20 Apr 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1462/Rating:3.5 / Comments:
India will soon launch an advanced communications satellite, put into orbit for the first time by a cryogenic engine developed by its own scientists.GSLV-D3 carrying GSAT-4 satellite is scheduled for launch on April 15, 2010
Cryogenic engines are rocket motors designed for fuels that have to be held at very low temperatures to be liquid. They would otherwise be gas. Officials say that only five countries in the world have this technology...
Date: 9 Apr 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1191/Rating:3.6 / Comments:
You must be well aware of the "Incredible India" campaign - with tag "Athithi devo Bava" meaning Guest is equal to god. Treating guests with utmost obedience and respect is what all ancient Indian texts preach. Now some may have reservations whether Indians still cling to it - but this respect to Guests is what attracted many foreign travelers and behind them the invaders and behind them colonizers. Ofcourse thats all a big history. The point here ISRO may soon come up with "Incredible (or Astonishing) Space" campaign 
I am not kidding - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is known to be taking space tourism very seriously. With the new chief Dr K Radhakrishnan in position, the organization is exploring new strategies and technologies for low cost space tourism.
Date: 8 Apr 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1253/Rating:0
The activities related to the realisation of Hylas satellite are progressing satisfactorily for delivery in August 2010 to the customer- - said in a update dated 2nd April on ISRO's website. So the schedule launch of Hylas can be by the year end of 2010.
HYLAS,( Highly Adaptable Satellite) is the name of a small geostationary communications satellite planned for launch in 2010. HYLAS is being constructed by EADS Astrium for the UK telecommunications company Avanti Communications Plc.
Date: 5 Apr 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space, Science / Views: 1250/Rating:0
Who says Chandrayaan I was a failure ? First it confirmed water on moon. Now it finds water ice....
Date: 2 Mar 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space, Science / Views: 2421/Rating:5
The GSLV-III or Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle mark III is a launch vehicle currently under development by the Indian Space Research Organization. It is intended to launch heavy satellites into geostationary orbit, and will allow India to become less dependent on foreign rockets for heavy lifting..
Date: 1 Feb 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space, Technical News / Views: 2098/Rating:3.9
Another Good news for ISRO.. ISRO chief ,Dr G Madhavan Nair takes over as the President of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).
Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took over as the President of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) on October 11, 2009 during the General Assembly of the IAA in Daejeon, South Korea. Dr Madhavan Nair was the Vice-President of Scientific Activities of the IAA during the last four years.
Date: 13 Oct 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India, India Space / Views: 1757/Rating:0 / Comments:
The ISRO's oceansat-2 is doing great job beaming out high quality images. After Chandrayaan -I 's finding of water on moon, ISRO is all geared up to make more Impacts(ofcourse not on moon till Chandrayaan -II). ...
Date: 13 Oct 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India, India Space, Science / Views: 1262/Rating:5
Another Cheer for ISRO, with the successive 15th flawless launch of PSLV. PSLV C-14 launches Oceansat-2 and six more nano satellites!!!
Date: 24 Sep 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1116/Rating:5
It is already known the abrupt end of Chandrayaan - I mission and the slight media uproar there after. Now scientists have first announced their first ground breaking finding.. Moon has water
Date: 24 Sep 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1091/Rating:5
India will soon design and develop its heaviest communications satellite GSAT-11 to provide advanced telecom services from 2011-12, a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1687/Rating:5 / Comments:
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NASA performed a unique joint experiment on Aug. 21, 2009 that could yield additional information on the possibility of existence of ice in a permanently shadowed crater near the North pole of the moon.
Date: 25 Aug 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 983/Rating:5 / Comments:
India plans to power some parts of the Chandrayaan II--its next unmanned mission to the moon-- with nuclear energy and the feasibility studies are being carried out by ISRO and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Date: 16 Aug 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1512/Rating:3.7
Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to Moon, launched on October 22, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, has completed eight months of successful operation and has made 3,000 revolutions around the Moon. Besides sending more than 70,000 images of the lunar surface......
Date: 11 Aug 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1039/Rating:5
Another Successful launch by ISRO
Date: 22 Apr 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India, India Space / Views: 1479/Rating:3.5
An Isro (Indian Space Research Organization) satellite, Saral (Satellite with ARgos and ALtika), will embark the AltiKa altimeter (working in Ka-band, 35 GHz), built by Cnes, as well as a Doris instrument. Signal frequencies in the Ka-band will enable better observation of ice, rain, coastal zones, land masses (forests, etc.), and wave heights.
Date: 5 Apr 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India, India Space / Views: 1061/Rating:0 / Comments:
Megha-Tropiques (‘Megha’ in Sanskrit means clouds and ‘Tropiques’ is the French word for tropics) is a joint ISRO and CNES (French Space Agency) science collaboration project..
Date: 5 Apr 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: Environment, India Space / Views: 1115/Rating:0
After the reckoning Success of Chandrayaan I .. ISRO is all set with New Plans....
Date: 27 Mar 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1731/Rating:3.6
Date: 19 Mar 2009 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 1069/Rating:3
are of special interest, as they might contain ice. The lunar mission carried five ISRO payloads and six payloads from other international space agencies including NASA, ESA, and the Bulgarian Aerospace Agency, which were carried free of cost. 