Chandrayan 1- India Mission to Moon
It is a prestigious moment for all indians that, India launched its first spaceship to explore the moon on October 22, 2008. India’s moon mission is named as Chandrayan by the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO. The recently launched Chandrayan 1 is the first among the series of unmanned space missions by Indian Space Research Organisation. In sanskrit the word chandrayan means moon travel or travel to moon. The launching centre of the space of Shar on the island of Sriharikota in addition to state of India of ‘East coast of S of will andhra pradesh is used by ISRO to launch the spaceship on PSLV and other rockets.
Chandrayan-1 was launched on a mission two-tyear on one of India of the ’s has the polar satellite Launch the rockets of space of vehicle (PSLV) of the space centre of Sriharikota in southernmost India. Chandrayan 1 is supposed to return the images of the moon surface which are of high resolution. The image will also include the shaded polar regions. Chandran is also supposed to seek the obviousness of water or the ice in the surface of the moon and will also test the moon soil to find out the chemical breakdown of rocks in the moon
Along with the indian payloads Chandrayaan-1 has payloads of the United States and the European countries Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and Bulgaria. India envisages to share its data of the moon with NASA and other space agencies. The Indian lunar satellite also places an instrument of radar of the United States conceived to locate the water ice.
Accroding to officials from ISRO the main aim of this mission was to identify the origin of the moon. The scientists envisage to unload a vagrant on the moon to carry out the chemicals analyzes lunar surface. The officials has also pointed out that the technoloy used in the chandrayan mission is ten times better than other countries. The mission aims covering the whole moon and at collecting information like possible as much.
Like every other matter indian space mission, chandrayan 1 has also raised controversies among indians. People are already talking about why india needs a space mission like this when there are lots of people living under poverty in india where agriculture is still the major piece of revenue for many indians. Some people are alos having opinion that India considers the placement of its space program with being a question of prestige rather than anything more.
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October 26, 2008 | Filed Under simplelife
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