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India ready for Mission on moon:ISRO scientist upbeat
by azzayindia | April 28, 2008 at 12:57 am | 436 views | 10 comments
by azzayindia
India Government has given a green signal for the manned mission to moon called Chandrayan mission.
India plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2008 and has begun to study technologies needed to send an astronaut to space.
We have the capabilities and discussions will be held on how to harness resources to accomplish the mission,” an Indian Space Research Organisation official said.
The United States has revived a programme to send a man to the moon by 2020, while China has announced plans to land on the moon around the same time.
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Indian Institute of Science, National Aerospace Laboratories, Defence Research and Development Organisation and Institute of Aerospace Medicine are creating a consensus to go in for a manned mission.
Manned mission to space would cost about Rs10,000 crore, while sending a man to the moon would be costlier.
"ISRO has completed all design activities for the mission. We are in the process of building special instruments required for the mission. ISRO had also designed a special three stage-tracking network to monitor the mission, when the spacecraft will be in orbit. A special ground station had been designed and would come up near Bangalore.
The spacecraft would keep on circling the moon and would send data, adding small equipment in the spacecraft would detach itself and descend to the moon surface. This would also send data. "Global players have declared that by 2020, they will have their bases on the moon. I don't think India can afford to be lagging behind in that," Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman said.
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April 28, 2008 at 12:57 am by azzayindia, 436 views, 10 comments
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at 04:33 on April 28th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:20 on April 28th, 2008
thank you dave
at 08:27 on April 28th, 2008
it is ggod to know
at 08:28 on April 28th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 12:00 on April 28th, 2008
So I guess all those people who can't afford to buy enough rice to eat can at least starve knowing their great nation will soon put some space junk on an already explored rock that orbits a few thousand miles above their starving heads. Nice work India!
at 21:53 on April 28th, 2008
i agree with you eastvanray but not completely the growth of india in space research comes as great shock to some westerners.it is o.k for indians to be working for NASA but it is not ok to send their own mission.i do not buy this argument. the space mission of india is great commercial succes with the foreign currency it is earning by sending satellites of other countries which brings in extra money for the starving population of the country.
india can do the same mission at half the cost of NASA. It is better idea for America to cut its spending to NASA and supporting the indian missions,both will benefit from it.
at 22:12 on April 28th, 2008
It is a mission to the moon! I didn't read that is was a net revenue generator. Do you know that. I think it is just nationalism as the expense of the poor. If I am wrong and this is a profitable venture then great. But I think it is a nation trying to be modern by doing something the US did almost 40 years ago. Why go to the moon anyway? We know what is there. Why spend millions of dollars to find out what you can simply ask NASA about?
at 00:36 on April 29th, 2008
mission on moon is much cheaper than mission on mars.what the mission will do is procvide space scientists the necessary experience for the other space related findings. maybe they find something worthwhile in their research.same was said when india went to antartica and the research their is helping in studying the global warming.
the poor will benefit from the ancillary industary which will provide jobs in the factories for requirement of various equipmnets.
at 10:08 on April 29th, 2008
How about a mission to feed starving people. That will provide food. Right now. The space industry is one of the lowest job creating sectors on a per-dollar-spent basis (low multiplier effect). And the people in danger of starvation are not those who would be employed in aerospace they are the uneducated lower cast.
at 20:32 on April 30th, 2008
their are already many programs running for the poorest of poor in the country like employment guarantee scheme and many such programs are on anvil. the starvation is more because of corruption than anything else.