Chandrayaan 1, India's First Lunar Probe |
Chandrayaan 1, India's First Lunar Probe |
 May 1 2006, 04:23 PM
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Chandrayaan Lunar Mission Will Carry NASA Payload
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Chandray...SA_Payload.html Bangalore, India (SPX) May 1, 2006 - ISRO has agreed to carry two NASA research instruments aboard its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, the Indian lunar-orbiting mission planned for launch next year, The Hindu newspaper reported Sunday. ISRO Pushing For Indian Satellite Industry http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ISRO_Pus...e_Industry.html Bangalore, India (SPX) May 1, 2006 - ISRO is looking to jump-start an Indian satellite industry by inviting prospective domestic contractors to work with the agency until they can develop independent manufacturing capabilities. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Oct 25 2008, 03:40 PM
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Oct 26 2008, 07:46 AM
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http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Oct26_2008.htm - Chandrayaan-1 enters deep space.
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Oct 26 2008, 05:34 PM
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QUOTE (Zvezdichko @ Oct 26 2008, 02:46 AM)  http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Oct26_2008.htm - Chandrayaan-1 enters deep space. Will the next burn take it to the moon? Or will there be another before that final lunar injection burn? -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 26 2008, 07:02 PM
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According to the last publication:
QUOTE More orbit raising manoeuvres are planned in the coming few days to take Chandrayaan-1 towards the Moon. There will be at least one more. |
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Oct 29 2008, 11:41 AM
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Oct 31 2008, 02:41 PM
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The Terrain Mapping camera (TMC) on board Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully operated on October 29, 2008
Link: http://isro.org/pressrelease/Oct31_2008.htm - Chandrayaan-1 Camera Tested |
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Oct 31 2008, 02:44 PM
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QUOTE (Bhas_From_India @ Oct 31 2008, 08:11 PM) The Terrain Mapping camera (TMC) on board Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully operated on October 29, 2008 Link: http://isro.org/pressrelease/Oct31_2008.htm - Chandrayaan-1 Camera Tested The Photos of Earth Taken by TMC
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Oct 31 2008, 02:46 PM
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QUOTE (Bhas_From_India @ Oct 31 2008, 08:14 PM) The Photos of Earth Taken by TMC
These were taken from 9,000KM and 70,000KM. Since Lunar orbit is going to be 100KM, We should get very good pictures... Have to wait 2 More weeks though. |
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Oct 31 2008, 02:52 PM
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It seems Next (and last?) orbit raising maneuver is scheduled for Nov, 3rd.
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Oct 31 2008, 08:06 PM
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Ah very nice pictures!
-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 31 2008, 10:03 PM
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OK, before I post about this one, I need a reality check. Remember how when Rosetta flew by Earth and returned a lovely Earth photo, it was published reversed (flipped right for left) -- see discussion here? Well, if I am not mistaken, the whole-Earth image from Chandrayaan-1 is also flipped right for left. Compare the cloud patterns over Australia to this photo, taken about an hour earlier, by MTSAT-1R, the geostationary satellite operated by Japan:
It looks like the other image is oriented correctly. Am I right about that? --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 31 2008, 10:24 PM
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Well, I'll say this: ONE of them sure appears to be the wrong way around!
Seriously, mistaking left - right, or even worse, which way the illumination *ought* to come from is hilarious. -------------------- |
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Oct 31 2008, 11:14 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 31 2008, 04:03 PM) ...Compare the cloud patterns over Australia to this photo, taken about an hour earlier, by MTSAT-1R, the geostationary satellite operated by Japan:
Where did you find that image o_O? Where can I get other pictures from that satellite? -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Nov 1 2008, 12:05 AM
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Here's a jumping-off point for images of Earth from geostationary satellites:
http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/ou...stationary.html --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Nov 1 2008, 12:55 AM
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Also check out this thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4005
-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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