Indias Mission to Moon Chandrayaan 1
Posted by on 18th, 2008
India’s Mission to Moon Chandrayaan 1 will be on Display for the first time before Media. Chandrayaan Means “Moon Craft”.
The Project was announced on the occassion of 56th indepence day of India on August 15 2003by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. India will be sending its own space craft to the Moon. Chandrayaan-1, the lunar craft would be launched using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) weighing 1304 kg at launch and 590 kg at lunar orbit. Lunar craft would orbit around moon 100 km from moon surface.
This mission is expected to have an operational life of about 2 years.
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