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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: India's first moon mission to take off next April
India will launch a locally built rocket on the country's first unmanned mission to the moon next April, the head of the project said on Friday.
"We have decided on April 9, but if there's any problem then we have launch windows in the following couple of days," M. Annadurai told Reuters.
Despite limited funding, India operates an extensive space programme consisting of launch vehicles, satellites and data-processing centres.
The state-run Indian Space Research Organisation launched four satellites on a single rocket for the first time in January, including one that was brought back to earth to set the stage for the country to send an astronaut into space by 2014 and a manned mission to the moon by 2020.
India's space programme was launched as a scientific research effort after the country gained independence from British colonial rule but it has now begun to make money from commercial launches.
Sixteen Indian satellites currently orbit the earth, supporting telecommunications, TV broadcasting, earth observation, weather forecasting, remote education and healthcare.
India's constellation of seven earth-observation satellites is the largest of its kind in the world.
But its space programme lags behind its Asian rival, China, which became only the third nation -- after the United States and the former Soviet Union -- to launch a man into space aboard its own rocket in 2003.
Beijing plans a space walk by 2008.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: Space network for India's lunar mission set up
Space network for India's lunar mission set up
From The Hindustan Times
The Indian space agency (ISRO) has put up a deep space network (DSN) near Bangalore with a 32-metre dish antenna for its first lunar exploration mission Chandrayaan-1 due in April next year.
"The DSN will provide tracking and command support for our unmanned moon mission, scheduled for launch in mid-April from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, using the indigenous polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV)," a top space agency official said here on Saturday.
The first lunar mission is estimated to cost the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about Rs.3.6 billion.
As part of the ground support, the network being set up at Byalalu, about 40 km from India's IT hub, will be used to send commands and receive telemetry signals, including massive data from the spacecraft while orbiting around the moon at a whopping distance of 385,000 km away from the earth.
"The DSN, set up at an upfront cost of Rs.1 billion in this vast 120-acre campus, will be the base station for not only the lunar missions (Chandrayaan-I & II), but also for our future planetary exploration missions like Mars, which is about 60 million km away," ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) director S.K. Shivakumar told reporters on a visit to the facility.
Before ISRO embarks on deep space exploration in the next decade, the network will track its proposed Astrosat, a space telescope designed to scout for galactic clusters, new stars beyond the Milky Way and a variety of cosmological phenomenon.
The indigenously-built network has another 18-metre dish antenna, designed and fabricated by Vertex RSI of Germany. State-owned Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and leading manufacturing firms such as L&T and Godrej & Boyce in the private sector were roped in to set up the massive network.
"ECIL has designed and developed the 180-degree panel reflector for the 32-metre antenna, which cost us Rs.600 million. The command station includes a spacecraft control centre, a space science data centre and an international ground station augmentation. All systems connected with the lunar mission are being tested in the run-up to the launch, which has been tentatively fixed for April 9, 2008," Shivakumar said.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: India set to colonize the moon ... Chandrayaan II
ISRO plans colony on moon, to send robots
From Business standard
In what may well be the first step towards establishing the first “human colony” on the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is examining the possibility of establishing a robotic set-up or unmanned mission on the moon.
Called Chandrayaan I and II, the basic objective of the project is to examine whether a robotic set-up can function as a stopover to refuel reusable spacecraft for various planetary missions and, eventually, create a self-sustaining environment to support a human colony on the moon.
Chandrayaan I, which is scheduled for launch in April 9, 2009, will examine the possibility of processing Helium-3 to produce energy, said M Annadurai, Project Director, Chandrayaan, Isro.
Chandrayaan II is being planned sometimes between 2013 and 2014 .
Helium-3 is considered a very good source of energy unlike thorium, plutonium or uranium that have radiation effects.
“The robotic set-up can also find the existence of water, from which we can get hydrogen and oxygen to use as propellants,” Annadurai added.
The concept of having an outpost is driven by the fact that any spacecraft being launched from the moon will require one-sixth the amount of propellant it would need on earth.
“Basically we can escape the earth’s gravity,” explained Annadurai.
Isro has added a new 32-metre indigenous antenna in the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) at Byalalu, Bangalore, to track Chandrayaan-I.
Chandrayaan II is scheduled for December 2010. This will be in partnership with Russia, an agreement for which was signed during the last visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Russia.
The estimated cost of the Chandrayaan missions is approximately Rs 386 crore each.
During Chandrayaan II, Isro is also planning to land robots near the polar region of the moon to drill the polar ice cap and study the availability of water.
“If water is available, we will be able to collect helium and with hydrogen as the base, it is possible to feed the whole robotic base there," said Annadurai, adding that a human colony can eventually be established in the long run if the system becomes self-sustainable.
An ambitious plan to study the Sun will soon take shape with scientists making preparations for launch of a satellite named 'Aditya' to observe the corona, the Sun's outermost region, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday.
"Satellite 'Aditya' will study the corona, the outermost region of the Sun, and other parameters of space weather," minister of state in PMO Prithviraj Chavan said.
The minister said the mission was intended to enhance scientific knowledge of Sun's radiation and continuous monitoring of its atmosphere.
'Aditya' is likely to be a 100 kg satellite expected to be launched by 2012 to be placed in a near-earth orbit of 600 km.
The Sun's corona is highly active, releasing energy during solar flares in the form of bursts manifesting as geomagnetic storms on earth. These storms can distort the earth's magnetic field, and have a huge bearing on near-earth space where satellites are located.
In a significant development, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has completed the project report on the proposed Indian manned space mission slated for a takeoff in 2015. According to its chairman G.Madhavan Nair, the report will soon be submitted to the Government for approval. "We are basically targeting a seven-year period, planning to launch the mission in 2015 for which there is good clarity on the roadmap such as the technologies required, the estimated Rs.10,0000-million for the mission, the agencies who would be participating and so on," observed Nair.
However, Nair denied speculation that India had held discussions with Russia to send an Indian cosmonaut or to train the Indians for the manned mission. Incidentally, China had received extensive Russian support for its manned mission by way of technology employed for the manned capsule and training of Chinese astronaut candidates at the Russian Star City.
The project report, as envisaged now, assesses the technologies involved and facilities planned to be set up for the realization of the manned mission. As it is, ISRO has already joined hands with the Bangalore-based Institute of Aviation Medicine (IAM), an outfit functioning under the Indian Air Force to set up some of the high-end facilities to train the potential Indian astronauts for the proposed manned flight. It may be recalled that between 2003 and 2007, ISRO had carried out extensive studies to analyse the technological challenges involved in the manned space mission and the required capacities to undertake it.
While ISRO has several matured technologies to undertake the mission, the project report notes there is need to develop new and innovative technologies to ensure foolproof life support system, safety, reliability and an escape system for the crew.
Nair also revealed that ISRO would explore the possibility of cooperating with competent foreign space agencies for the mission. He drove home the point that the crucial aspects of the manned space mission would be the successful performance of the autonomous spacecraft with astronauts on board that would orbit the earth and return to earth safely.
As envisaged now, the 4-tonne class Indian manned capsule would be launched into a near-earth orbit by means of the heavy lift off GSLV-MK-III space vehicle which is expected to be ready for routine operations before the end of this decade. The 629-tonne heavy GSLV-MK-III is robust enough to launch a 10-tonne class payload into a near earth orbit. The Indian manned mission would be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota Island on the eastern coast.
The current year's budgetary allocation for space activities, which marks a 25 per cent jump over the previous year, makes a substantial financial commitment to initiate work on the manned space mission. The genesis of the mission goes back to November 2006, when around one hundred scientists and researchers, hailing from a variety of organizations and specializing in different disciplines, had lent whole-hearted support to ISRO's venture. They, however, had insisted on the need for perfect safety and reliability aspects, taking into account the human element.
It is widely perceived that ISRO was nudged into taking up an Indian manned mission only after China launched two successful manned capsules during the first half of this decade. However, ISRO has for the time being made it plain that there is no proposal to initiate action for a manned mission to the moon. Incidentally, our unmanned scientific mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, is now getting ready for takeoff mid-year.
This first-ever Indian probe into the moon would be launched by means of an augmented version of the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) into a 240 x 24,000-km orbit. From here, the spacecraft will make use of its own onboard propulsion system to reach the 100-km orbit around the moon.
The mission goal of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is to carry out the physical and chemical mapping of the lunar surface. It is expected that the mission will be able to provide clues about the existence of helium and water resources on the surface of the moon. Chandrayaan-1 will carry out a number of scientific experiments as well as the payloads contributed by foreign countries to study the various features of the moon. In addition, it will feature a Moon Impact Probe (MIP) as technology forerunner for the future lunar landing missions that ISRO may take up in the future. A Deep Space Network (DSN) to support Chandrayaan-1 and futuristic planetary missions have already been commissioned at Bylalu village near Bangalore.
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Continuing with the Indian tradition of equal respect and right towards both men and women, and given that India is yet to finalize on whether the first Gaganaut / Antariksha Yaatri of India's first mission to space will be a man or woman, ISRO has named it's mega venture as 'Indian human space flight', and not something like India's manned space flight.
Once this is achieved, India will be world's 4th country to have sent a human in the space on it's own - after the US, Russia and China.
Meanwhile, ISRO is planning to launch an advanced remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2A by means of PSLV from SDSC, by end-April. Weighing around 680-kg, the satellite would be launched along with a 100-kg experimental remote-sensing probe Third World Satellite (TWSAT) and eight nano satellites. Cartosat-2A, a follow up to Cartosat-2 launched in January 2007, is widely perceived to be a space platform that would be used extensively by the Defence forces.
Cartosat-2A will carry a less than one metre resolution panchromatic camera capable of providing scene specific spot imageries for cartographic applications. According to sources in ISRO, TWSAT is the first satellite in the micro satellite series envisaged to provide a 100-kg.class platform to carry payloads for earth imaging, space science, atmospheric and ocean studies .The data from TWSAT would be made available free of cost to the developing countries.
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India is also world's 4th nation to have successfully recovered a capsule from the space, one of the key challenges to send a human to the space, apart from the US, Russia and China.
Two other countries who are highly developed in space research and exploration, apart from the club of four mentioned above, are France and Japan. Both these countries are technically sound enough to send a man to the space once they take the decision and with some years of hard work.
France is the only european country who is self sufficient in space exploration. No other european country, apart from France, has the infrastructure to send a satellite of their own, and they depend on countries like France, India, Russia etc. for the same.
The launch and successful retrieval of Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE) by ISRO in January 2007 has provided significant inputs for developing the manned capsule. The SRE launched as a piggyback payload by means of PSL has helped ISRO acquire expertise in the area of re-entry which is crucial for a successful manned mission. In order to sharpen its technological edge for the upcoming manned mission, ISRO would launch its second space capsule recovery probe before the end of this decade.
Another important space mission that ISRO would undertake during the current year is the launch of G-Sat-4 technology demonstrator communications satellite by means of the three stage GSLV(Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) featuring a full Indian Cryogenic upper stage. So far the GSLV missions launched by ISRO featured Russian-supplied upper cryogenic engine stage. As such the launch of fully Indian GSLV would mark a major milestone for the Indian space programme.
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One of ISRO's next goal would be to join the "heavy launchers" group. Currently only the USA, Russia, China and EU are members of that club. For it's present need of lifting heavier loads, India now offshore the work to France.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: ISRO created yet another world record
ISRO created yet another world record
Setting a world record, India's Polar rocket on Monday successfully placed ten satellites, including the country's remote sensing satellite, into orbit in a single mission.
The ten pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organistion (ISRO) saw the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) carry the heaviest luggage--824 kgs--and put into orbit an Indian Mini Satellite and eight foreign nano satellites from Canda, Germany and Japan besides the Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite.
The Rs 700 million PSLV-C9 will be second to a Russian rocket that delivered 16 in the outer space in April last year.
But the Russian launch vehicle carried a lesser payload of only around 300 kg.
This will be the thirteenth flight of PSLV and the third flight with ‘core-alone’ configuration, which means the main/core PSLV rocket will be without the hugging six strap-on booster motors that powers the first stage.
CARTOSAT-2A weighing about 690 kg carries a state-of-the-art Panchromatic camera (PAN) that can record high clarity images covering a swathe of 9.6 kms.
It will provide data that could be used for urban and rural infrastructure management and land information systems.
The two earlier core alone PSLVs carried foreign satellites with a payload of 352 kg and 535 kg, they said. _________________ Request | Rules Our photos | My photos
Sixth nation to adventure into moon, after US, Russia, France (ESA), China and Japan.
India will be placing an Indian flag on the lunar surface during the mission. Will be the 4th country to have its flag on the moon, after US, Russia and Japan.
India will also land an MIP (moon impact probe) to moon to study and prepare the 2nd mission (2010 - 2012) when we will be sending a robot to moon.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: India plans to send two men to space by 2015
India plans to send two men to space by 2015
SRIHARIKOTA/ANDHRA PRADESH: The Indian space agency that started the country's maiden unmanned moon mission Wednesday is planning to send two Indians into space by 2015, said a top official.
"We are planning to carry two human beings into the space in our first manned space mission. The project report has been cleared by the Space Commission. The project outlay is Rs.120 billion ($2.44 billion)," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters here Wednesday 22nd october 08.
He said the manned mission would be using India's second rocket - the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
"The manned mission will be an indigenous effort. However we are not averse to cooperating with any other space agency," he added.
The Indian space agency has to cross several hurdles before it can send a man to space.
Firstly it has to stabilise GSLV and also master the space recovery capsule technology.
The rocket as well as the space capsule in which the humans would return has to get a specified rating, technically called the human rating, so that it doesn't get overheated during its return to the atmosphere.
"The failure rate in such vehicles should not be more than 1 in 100 missions," Nair pointed out. _________________ visit my blog
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: Chandrayaan-I launched successfully
Chandrayaan-I launched successfully
22 Oct 2008, 0628 hrs IST, PTI
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SRIHARIKOTA: Carrying over a billion hopes, India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-I began its historic journey to the moon today when an indigenouPSLV-C11 takes off carrying Chandrayaan-1 at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. (AFP Photo)
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sly developed rocket placed the spacecraft into the Transfer Orbit "perfectly". ( Watch )
India becomes the sixth nation, after the US, Russia, European Space Agency, China and Japan, to send a mission to the moon.
Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) home-grown rocket PSLV-C11 lifted off at 6.22 a.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here taking the spacecraft beyond the thick dark cloud cover over this coastal town.
About 18.2 minutes later, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair declared the launch successful which sent over a 1000 space scientists into a bout of jubilation. ( Watch )
"The launch was perfect and precise. The satellite has been placed in the earth orbit.” "With this, we have completed the first leg of the mission and it will take 15 days to reach the lunar orbit," Nair said.
Chandrayaan-I is carrying an Indian flag which will be placed on the lunar surface when the Moon Impactor Probe lands on the moon during the course of the two-year mission.
"Our baby is on the way to the moon," Chandrayaan-I spacecraft director Mylswamy Annadurai said after the satellite was injected in the Transfer Orbit with a a perigee of about 250 km and apogee of about 23,000 km, about 19 minutes.
Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair described the successful launch as a historic moment in India's space programme.
"The launch was perfect and precise. The satellite has been placed in the earth orbit. With this, we have completed the first leg of the mission and it will take 15 days to reach the lunar orbit," Nair announced in the mission control centre shortly after PSLV-C11 put the spacecraft in a transfer orbit.
After circling the earth in its highly elliptical Transfer Orbit for a while, Chandrayaan-1 would be taken into more elliptical orbits by repeated firing of the spacecraft's Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) at opportune moments.
Subsequently, the LAM would be again fired to take the spacecraft to the vicinity of the moon by following a Lunar Transfer Trajecctory (LTT) path, whose apogee lies at 3,87,000 km.
Later, when Chandrayaan-1 reaches the vicinity of the moon, its LAM would be fired again so as to slow down the spacecraft sufficiently to enable the gravity of the moon to capture it into an elliptical orbit. The next step would be to reduce the height of the spacecraft orbit around the moon in various steps.
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject:
I was reading Le Figaro, to see if they have written anything about this mission. What I found there, in the comments section, is full of poison, hurts, and shows how till today many readers of Le Figaro are unfriendly towards India. I don't think, if any country does anything good, we see Indians abusing that country and their people in this way in the Indian newspapers.
I wish I could do anything to help improve our nation's image here, and to make those people understand, that we are friendly people and don't have any intention to harm them, neither we have ever hurt them, so why they are so rude towards us.
It's painful to see some people so hostile towards a country which has never done anything bad to them.
kva : Desesperant Inde, Pakistan,Iran, ces pays sont desesperant. Ils trouvent des ressources en milliards de dollars pour assouvir leurs frustations de manque de reconnaissance, de prestige par la communauté internationale mais par contre pour aider à augmenter le niveau de vie et les inégalités dans leurs populations, ils ont "peu de moyen". Merci Unicef, et les autres.
Même s'ils envoyent un "indianakonaute" ou un "persokonaute" sur la planète Mars ces pays garderont toujours une image de misère sociale et de pauvre.
Exocet : Pathétique Oui, l'Inde désire la Lune et n'a pas les moyens de nourrir et de soigner correctement ses pauvres. L'Inde possède aussi son petit joujou de bombe nucléaire (qui va leur-nous- péter à la gueule un jour). Tant qu'il y aura des Mère Teresa, l'Inde, avec son système immonde de castes, continuera à émouvoir les petits bobos tiers-mondistes en mal de charité exotique.
Exocet : toujours L'Inde je demande à l'Inde de ne pas assaillir ma vieille Europe : qu'elle nous foute la paix avec ses super managers, ses super ingénieurs ultra compétents, ultra compétitifs qui travaillent-sans-jamais-se-plaindre. Mais Dieu du ciel, on n'en veut pas de leur enfer
euro3536 : indecent ! lorsqu'on visite les bidonvilles de Calcutta, on ne peut qu'avoir du dégoût pour ce genre de performances. C'est tout simplement indécent, c'est grand guignolesque, c'est du n'importe quoi.
jocker : inde deux trois Ils vont délocaliser les bidonvilles sur la lune ?
mibel : Alors que des millions d'indiens vivent dans la rue !!! et dans la pauvreté.
Quelle honte !!!
géraldine : la lune !!!!!! ce n'est pas ça qui va aider les malheureux de ce pays à s'en sortir !!!
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:
if it is true, it is very sad and equally disheartening.
it appears to me that these were those comments posted by readers to news articles. for all u know, there might b some pakis in france also who would have posted anti india comments under pseudo names. they cannot stand india's recent success to moon and confused how to react. thankfully they r not protesting and claiming moon to b their property since moon is on their flag.
jokes apart, even if few notorious ppl like me posted such comments, what the hell the editor of Le Figaro was doing? they need to filter lewd remarks. i agree and accept that french society is a civilized society but everybody is not sensible enough to write right things. "everything that comes out of a cow is not milk".
same chandrayan has a payload from europe. that means sensors/cameras of europe for their research on moon. since they cant afford a mission like this, they put their sensors on our chandrayan, of course they will pay us for it. this is like taking a lift in someone's car and then later saying behind car owner's back "how the hell he can afford a car?"
anyway, we care a damn. we know this is not the majority. the majority is with us. all my colleagues appreciated the mission. in last three days, i have answered to many querries on chandrayan to my colleagues.
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:
That's some good news Indian. The theory of Pakistanis (or for that matter, Chinese) can very well be true, no doubt. I didn't think from that angle.
And then, as you said, not everything coming out from a cow is milk.
However, one small doubt. I read that India is giving a free ride to the European and American machines to the moon, without asking them any money, but in exchange of sharing information.
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject:
free ride?
may be possible in this case. i m not too sure. but generally, they r supposed to pay. all this is being looked after by indian company ANTRIX corporation (hindi origin antariksh).
may b we r gradually establishing ourselves as a payload hub for future by creating a market for us??!!
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