India's First Unmanned Mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1 Oct 22,2008
- India's First Unmanned Mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, was
launched on October 22, 2008, and its instruments were used to find water in
the lunar soil.Chandrayaan 1 was launched on October 22, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space
Centre at Sriharikota by PSLV-C11. It completed 312 days in orbit and
making 3400 orbits around the moon.Chandrayaan 1 sent nearly 70,000 amazing images of surface of moon which
includes mountains and craters especially at moon’s polar region. It
also collected critical information about chemical and mineral content
of moon.
- Chandrayaan-1 put India in an elite group of countries with mission
to the moon, which includes the U.S., Russia, Japan, China and the
countries of the European Space Agency.
- The mission had to be abandoned in August 2009 because of a
communications failure with the satellite.Madhavan Nair, the ISRO chief
admitted that Mission Chandrayaan has come to an end, although it is a
difficult situation.
He says:
“At the moment, we have suspended the mission. Calling it
off would depend on what has failed. We are trying to analyze what has
gone wrong and we will take a look at it tomorrow.”
- A second unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, is scheduled in 2013
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