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Planning Phase Complete For Indian Moon Mission

Posted by timothy on from the good-luck dept.

alphakappa writes "According to news reports, India's low-cost moon mission -- Chandrayan -- has completed its planning phase and will be deployed in 2007-2008 as planned. The interesting aspect is that the entire mission is expected to cost only around USD 88 million. How do you think space technology will change as a result of these low cost missions, satellites and space vehicles?"

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  1. ISRO... by manavendra · · Score: 4, Informative
    ...or Indian Space Research Organization, was setup in 1969.

    ISRO has established space systems like the:
    • INSAT for telecommunication, television broadcasting and meteorological services
    • Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS) for resources monitoring and management

    ISRO has also developed the satellite launch vehicles PSLV and GSLV to place these satellites in the required orbits.

    Here's the complete list of ISRO's geostationary satellite system
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  2. Re:I'd take this annoucement with a grain of salt by rsidd · · Score: 2, Informative
    Forget moon mission, sending a man into orbit itself will be a big deal for India,

    RTFA, this is an unmanned mission.

  3. Click here for a little more by PhrozenF · · Score: 4, Informative

    This article here has a little more info about the lunar mission, and a small backgrounder on the EDUSAT, which was covered on Slashdot last week.

  4. Re:Low cost by MarkKnopfler · · Score: 5, Informative

    Chandrayan literally translates to moon-vehicle.

  5. Funny.. by manavendra · · Score: 5, Informative

    ..rather interesting to see the most highly-rated comments on /. are those who deride the Indian space programme and yelp about the poverty and the living conditions, and expound the wealth of their knowledge about how this 88 mil could be used towards creating more hospitals and so on.

    How many of you know about India's space programmes though?

    Did you know that India has been working on space programmes since the 60's?

    Or that it had a comprehensive space progamme, that included a satellite system, a remote sensing satellite system, polar satellite launch vehicle and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle ?

    Or that when United States arm-twisted Russia in April 1992 and July 1993 not to sell the cryogenic technology know-how to India.

    Or that India's cryogenic engine came of age on April 18, 2001 when India bustled into the exclusive GSL club?

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  6. Re:Low cost by stoborrobots · · Score: 4, Informative
    From http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=Chandrayan to http://www.spacetoday.org/India/IndiaMoonFlights.h tml yields:
    The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) calls the Moon flight project Chandrayan Pratham, which has been translated as First Journey to the Moon or Moonshot One.

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  7. Re:What is the point? by vk2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those who couldn't modprobe funny
    paneer means..

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  8. Not exactly correct either... by AtomicBomb · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or that India's cryogenic engine came of age on April 18, 2001 when India bustled into the exclusive GSL club?

    It is still an impressive development. However, the cryogenic engine that they are using is a Russian import. The Indians build their own fuel tank and pumping system... Quote from the article "India is using the (Russian) engine as a component in the GSLV, but without a technology transfer." "It is a technology which has never been used by India before," Narasimha (Director of Indian National Institute of Advanced Studies) said.

  9. Re:Low cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Or "Ascent to the Moon" depending on how you slice it in Sanskrit.