Hello Humanoids . Today , on 22nd October 2008 at 6:22 A.M, to be precise , the rocket PSLV-C11 or Chandrayaan-1 was launched by a team of India scientists of ISRO at ISRO owned Satish Dhawan Space Centre .It took 18 minutes for the space craft to reach the Earth's orbit , everything went as they planned.
Here is the launching video :
Today was a historic day , lets take a look at some of the FAQs
Is the Chandrayaan-1 ( the spacecraft ) going to the Moon directly ?
Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the Earth till November 7 and on November 8 it will start its journey towards moon .
Here are some important things you should know , via IbnLive.com
At the earliest possible opportunity the spacecraft that will orbit 100 km above the surface of the moon will drop its Moon Impact Probe (MIP) which will land on the lunar surface carrying India's flag, among many scientific instruments. After that, the spacecraft will also activate its cameras and other instruments on board.
Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the moon for two years. It carries 11 experimental payloads, five Indian and six from abroad - the two from NASA, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
What are the objective (s) of this mission ?
"Chandrayaan-1 aims to achieve these objectives through high resolution of the moon in the visible, near infrared, microwave and x-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum," mission director M. Annadurai told IANS.
A three-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and chemical mapping of the entire lunar surface are the other objectives of the mission.
Should Team India be proud ?
Yes since India is the 5th country after U.S.A , USSR,Japan and China .
I saw a news channel few minutes back and a reporter asked " IIT ( which is the MIT of India ) has no participation in this mission , which is unthinkable as the brightest brains of India are from IIT " , the reply came " Because they are just worried about getting the money , they just missed the ultimate satisfaction of making history " .
Kudos to the scientists who spent days and night on this mission , they must be pretty satisifed as they spent most of the time for the welfare of the country , its because of people like these a country progresses .
Take Care ,
Here is the launching video :
Today was a historic day , lets take a look at some of the FAQs
Is the Chandrayaan-1 ( the spacecraft ) going to the Moon directly ?
Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the Earth till November 7 and on November 8 it will start its journey towards moon .
Here are some important things you should know , via IbnLive.com
At the earliest possible opportunity the spacecraft that will orbit 100 km above the surface of the moon will drop its Moon Impact Probe (MIP) which will land on the lunar surface carrying India's flag, among many scientific instruments. After that, the spacecraft will also activate its cameras and other instruments on board.
Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the moon for two years. It carries 11 experimental payloads, five Indian and six from abroad - the two from NASA, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
What are the objective (s) of this mission ?
"Chandrayaan-1 aims to achieve these objectives through high resolution of the moon in the visible, near infrared, microwave and x-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum," mission director M. Annadurai told IANS.
A three-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and chemical mapping of the entire lunar surface are the other objectives of the mission.
Should Team India be proud ?
Yes since India is the 5th country after U.S.A , USSR,Japan and China .
I saw a news channel few minutes back and a reporter asked " IIT ( which is the MIT of India ) has no participation in this mission , which is unthinkable as the brightest brains of India are from IIT " , the reply came " Because they are just worried about getting the money , they just missed the ultimate satisfaction of making history " .
Kudos to the scientists who spent days and night on this mission , they must be pretty satisifed as they spent most of the time for the welfare of the country , its because of people like these a country progresses .
Take Care ,
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