India's Moon Exploration Program

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whats the advantage in having a telescope on the moon's surface and around the earth orbit/sun sych orbit(like astrosat)?? idnt get it??

Just placing a telescope to other body's orbit or body to explore space even deeper plus space around that.

 

[Akask kumar]

Just placing a telescope to other body's orbit or body to explore space even deeper plus space around that.

this came to me later..after posting the comment..

by placing telescope on moon omits the requirement to have on board fuel (which is used to change orientation) . As revolution and rotation of moon can be tapped to take pic of different section of space..plus this may extend the life of telescope until the batteries expires..

So,only life of batteries will be the limiting factor not on board fuel..

because of solid ground underneath the telescope(not empty space) ,servo motors can be utilized to fine tune the orientation.. even if the motor fails . we can continue taking space pics as moon will not stop its rotation and revolution..

 

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Google lunar challenge and India's team Indus .

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Team Indus lunar rover


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Meet the second rover ECA .

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[AnantS]

whats the advantage in having a telescope on the moon's surface and around the earth orbit/sun sych orbit(like astrosat)?? idnt get it??

No Pollutants(as literally no atmosphere on moon), hence better picture compared to earth
You dont need to raise orbit again and again, hence life of telescope will be long

 

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ISRO in talks with international bodies for setting up remote-controlled telescope on Moon

 

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NARL MST Radar observes echoes from the Moon
Link to MST Radar

SNR of moon echoes as a function of ambiguous-range and time observed in different beams. Echoes marked as A, B, C, D, and E correspond to observations made in 18° East, 12° East, 6° East, Zenith, and 6° West beams, respectively​

 

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ISRO starts landing tests for Chandrayaan-2 mission

Simulated lunar craters created in Chitradurga to plan Lander’s descent
The Indian Space Research Organsiation started a series of ground and aerial tests linked to the critical Moon landing of Chandrayaan-2 on Friday, at its new site at Challakere in Chitradurga district, 400 km from Bengaluru.

ISRO Satellite Centre or ISAC, the lead centre for the second Moon mission, has artificially created close to ten craters to simulate the lunar terrain and test the Lander’s sensors.

A small ISRO aircraft has been carrying equipment with sensors over these craters to plan the tasks ahead.

ISRO, along with a host of other scientific and strategic agencies, owns vast land for its future missions at Challakere, in a ‘Science City.’

ISAC Director M.Annadurai told The Hindu, “The campaign for the Lander tests of Chandrayaan-2 has started. Tests are conducted over the simulated craters at Chitradurga. We are using an aircraft to assess whether the sensors on the Lander will do their job [later] of identifying the landing spot on the Moon.”

Chandrayaan-2 is tentatively set for late 2017 or early 2018 and includes soft-landing on Moon and moving a rover on its surface.

‘Complicated task’

Landing on an alien surface is very complicated, said Dr. Annadurai, who was also the Project Director for the successful Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission of 2008.

In the coming months up to March, ISAC would conduct many tests: on avionics and electronics; testing the Lander’s legs, followed by a combined full test, at Bengaluru and Chitradurga.

The mission includes an Orbiter, a Lander and a Rover, all being readied at ISAC in Bengaluru. The Orbiter spacecraft when launched from Sriharikota will travel to the Moon and release the Lander, which will in turn deploy a tiny Rover to roam the lunar surface — all three sending data and pictures to Earth.

 

[Akask kumar]

ISRO starts landing tests for Chandrayaan-2 mission






‘Complicated task’

hurray.. ...GOI pls dnt let SAARC sat ruin any of the prime mission till next year..

 

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With ISRO Deal, Indian Space Startup Gets Big Boost In Global Space Race

Team Indus has signed a deal with ISRO to send a rover to the moon using its PSLV rocket.
Story Highlights

• Private space company Team Indus signs deal to use ISRO's PSLV rocket
• Rocket will carry rover, lander, orbiter to the moon by end of 2017
• Only among 30 contenders for $20 million prize to seal such a deal

Bengaluru: It may be just one step for a small startup, but it is a giant leap for India's space program. Team Indus, a private company that wants to be India's first to send a rover to the moon, has bought a ticket aboard a 320-ton giant rocket, bringing it closer to its goal.

The moonshot will be realised with the trusted Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV engineered by India's space agency ISRO. Team Indus is buying the launch at commercial rates, says ISRO. Besides a trip to the moon and the bragging rights that follow, the coveted Google Lunar XPRIZE is also at stake.

Team Indus is working on their moon mission from their Bengaluru HQ.

Announced in 2007, the competition offers a $20 million first prize to the first privately funded teams to land a robot on the moon that successfully travels more than 500 meters and transmits back high-definition images and video.

A diverse group of around 100 people formed in 2010, Bengaluru-based Team Indus aims to send an orbiter, a lander and a rover to the moon before end of 2017. Among the 30-odd contenders for the prize from around the world, only Team Indus has procured a rocket contract for a functional launcher.

A prototype of the Team Indus rover that plans to explore the moon.

"We have signed a launch services agreement with Team Indus which essentially provides a PSLV launch for launching a lunar orbiter and lander sometime in the fourth quarter of 2017," Rakesh Sasibhushan, Chairman and Managing Director of Antrix Corporation - the commercial arm of ISRO, Bengaluru - told NDTV.

Having inked the deal, the group has to now race against time to meet the deadline and also meet ISRO's stringent specifications to make its payload worthy of flying on a national resource.

Is ISRO taking a big risk by launching a lunar satellite from a novice company? "Not really. All satellites that have to fly on the PSLV have to undergo a qualification test and we will ensure that the satellite is worthy of flying on the PSLV," Mr Sashibhushan said.

In my opinion, launching HHK-1 rover of team Indus in 2017 will further bear experience for Cdy-2's rover in 2018.
And again, it will be covered on this thread because it's about any Indian Lunar probe not only from ISRO or VSSC.
@Akask kumar @pmaitra @Kunal Biswas

 

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With ISRO Deal, Indian Space Startup Gets Big Boost In Global Space Race

Team Indus has signed a deal with ISRO to send a rover to the moon using its PSLV rocket.
Story Highlights

• Private space company Team Indus signs deal to use ISRO's PSLV rocket
• Rocket will carry rover, lander, orbiter to the moon by end of 2017
• Only among 30 contenders for $20 million prize to seal such a deal

Team Indus is working on their moon mission from their Bengaluru HQ.

A prototype of the Team Indus rover that plans to explore the moon.



In my opinion, launching HHK-1 rover of team Indus in 2017 will further bear experience for Cdy-2's rover in 2018.
And again, it will be covered on this thread because it's about any Indian Lunar probe not only from ISRO or VSSC.
@Akask kumar @pmaitra @Kunal Biswas

yes.. even if it crash lands..no bad tag will be attached to ISRO.. and ISRO will get a pre-experience to improve the CDY2 landing.. he he..

and if it succeeds..India flag will fly high bringing prestige and will also unveil a private brooding space company Team Indus..
So far no private space company or team has touched down moon..

 

[Chinmoy]

yes.. even if it crash lands..no bad tag will be attached to ISRO.. and ISRO will get a pre-experience to improve the CDY2 landing.. he he..

and if it succeeds..India flag will fly high bringing prestige and will also unveil a private brooding space company Team Indus..
So far no private space company or team has touched down moon..

WIN WIN situation for all stakeholders..............

 

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Team Indus gets slot on PSLV rocket for its journey to moon

Team Indus, the Bengaluru space startup that is aiming to send a lander and rover to the moon, has confirmed a slot on India's PSLV rocket for its mission in the last quarter of 2017.

The Indian team, backed by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, is among the three top contenders for the Google's Lunar XPRIZE competition, looking to win $30 million cheque for the first mission to land on the moon. In addition, the lunar rover has to travel 500 metres on the moon's surface while transmitting high resolution images to earth.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will build an extended version of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) to carry the lunar rover and lander to the moon. Antrix Corp, the commercial arm of ISRO signed the deal with Team Indus, an Antrix official confirmed the development. Team Indus declined comment.

ISRO had used the workhorse PSLV on its Chandrayaan-1 mission, when it sent a satellite that orbited the moon, besides crashing on its the earth's satellite to discover abundant water.

For the Team Indus mission, ISRO plans to replicate the sling shot approach it took for Chandrayaan-1 to hurl the lunar lander and rover away from the earth's gravity and land on the moon's surface. Team Indus has identified Mare Imbrium, latin for Sea of Showers, a vast dusty area on the Moon to land the spacecraft just at the just at the break of the lunar dawn, to help make the most of the lunar day.

"We will hopefully be the first privately funded spacecraft to land on any extraterrestrial body. We are extremely proud because this entire design has been done indigenously. We've had a lot of consultants from international countries, we're also sourcing a lot of components internationally, but this is 100 per cent indigenously designed," said Rahul Narayan, co-founder at TeamIndus in June..

TeamIndus is in a race to beat Israeli team SpaceIL which has scheduled its launch for the second half of 2017. SpaceIL has secured its ticket to the moon aboard US-based private space firm SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. In order to win the $30 million XPRIZE competition, a team has to land on the moon's surface and travel a distance of 500 metres whilst transmitting high-resolution images.

 

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Chandrayaan 2 - India's Second Moon Mission
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ISRO starts landing tests for Chandrayaan-2 mission

Article with same title but updated material:
http://m.thehindu.com/sci-tech/scie...s-for-chandrayaan2-mission/article9262541.ece

Landing on an alien surface is very complicated, said Dr. Annadurai, who was also the Project Director for the successful Chandrayaan-1 lunar exploration mission of 2008. The Lander’s success hinges on sensors. As it descends from the mother ship or Orbiter, they must correctly judge the distance to the lunar surface, the required speed and the time to hover over the location, for a few seconds. The terrain should enable a smooth landing and steady movement of the Rover when it is released from the Lander.

Battery of tests

In the coming months up to March, ISAC would conduct many tests: on avionics and electronics; testing the Lander’s legs; and its eight throttlable engines, followed by a combined full test, at Bengaluru and Chitradurga.

The mission includes an Orbiter, a Lander and a Rover, all being readied at ISAC in Bengaluru. The Orbiter spacecraft when launched from Sriharikota will travel to the Moon and release the Lander, which will in turn deploy a tiny Rover to roam the lunar surface - all three sending data and pictures to Earth.

Last week, the European Space Agency’s Mars lander, the Schiaparelli craft, crashed while parachuting to the Martian surface. Asked what lessons could be drawn from this, Dr. Annadurai said they were different in nature. The Chandrayaan-2 Lander does not use parachutes; the configurations and gravity issues of the two missions are different. “It still calls for a good amount of testing” for Chandrayaan-2, he said.

 

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Rover Tests Completed.

On the Chandrayaan-2 moon mission landing rover tests are complete and it is planned for launch in 2017, he said.

For clarifying @Akask Kumar's doubts over that, photo,

On whether Chandrayaan-2 will explore the possibility to bring helium-3 mineral to earth from Moon, to ensure safe nuclear energy which is not radioactive, Sivan said this second moon mission with orbiter, lander and rover is only for orbiting and landing on moon and will not be back to earth.

So, that model was mere a hoax.
http://m.timesofindia.com/city/thir...LV-Mk-III-by-Dec-end/articleshow/55317950.cms

 

[republic_roi97]

Rover Tests Completed.

For clarifying @Akask Kumar's doubts over that, photo,

So, that model was mere a hoax.
http://m.timesofindia.com/city/thir...LV-Mk-III-by-Dec-end/articleshow/55317950.cms

What's the probability that we'll have a 3rd and 4th mission ? Is there any official input on that ?

 

[republic_roi97]

hurray.. ...GOI pls dnt let SAARC sat ruin any of the prime mission till next year..

Agreed, to hell with SAARC sat. Chandryaan it is.