Chandrayaan-II, India's moon mission II with a lander and rover. Options

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ISRO and Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) had, on November 14, 2007, agreed to team up on joint lunar research and exploration as part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission.

This agreement, approved by the Union Cabinet a few days ago, involves an orbiting spacecraft and a rover that will land on the moon. Chandrayaan-2, which is expected to lift off from Sriharikota some time between 2010 and 2012, will have a budget of Rs 425 crore. The amount is slightly more than the current mission which is costing India Rs 386 crore. The spacecraft will be designed and developed by ISRO, while the rover will be a Russian product.

The rover will weigh between 30 kg and 100 kg, depending on the kind of landing-a hard or soft one-it will execute on the lunar surface. It will have a one-month life span and operate predominantly on solar power.

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India to build new launch-pad, astronaut training centre
Plans seems to be in progress for Chandrayaan-II and more

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Going forward for all the information obtained from non-standard website, i will paste the content instead of links.

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as per the news in Hindu, Today the Cabinet gave approval for the second mission (Chandrayaan-II) at a cost of Rs. 425 crore.

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Edit - delete embarrassingly wrong calculation, posted in error... honest!

I make that about $95 million (US) (at 45 Rupees/$, unless I've misplaced a decimal point (?) )

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India plans to send two men to space by 2015

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) Oct 22 (IANS) The Indian space agency that started the country’s maiden unmanned moon mission Wednesday is planning to send two Indians into space by 2015, said a top official. “We are planning to carry two human beings into the space in our first manned space mission. The project report has been cleared by the Space Commission. The project outlay is Rs.120 billion ($2.44 billion),” G. Madhavan Nair, chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters here Wednesday.

He said the manned mission would be using India’s second rocket - the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

“The manned mission will be an indigenous effort. However we are not averse to cooperating with any other space agency,” he added.

The Indian space agency has to cross several hurdles before it can send a man to space.

Firstly it has to stabilise GSLV and also master the space recovery capsule technology.

The rocket as well as the space capsule in which the humans would return has to get a specified rating, technically called the human rating, so that it doesn’t get overheated during its return to the atmosphere.

“The failure rate in such vehicles should not be more than 1 in 100 missions,” Nair pointed out.

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Chandrayaan-2 likely next year end or 2010: ISRO

SRIHARIKOTA: After the successful launch of India’s first unmanned mission to moon, Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to send its second lunar odyssey, Chandrayaan-2, an Indo-Russian joint venture, likely by the end of next year or early 2010.

The work on this project would be taken up after Chandrayaan-1 starts its task of researching the moon, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters here after the PSLV-C11 launched the spacecraft.

“One of the two GSLV missions next year could carry Chandrayaan-2,” he said.

The team behind the success of the first mission would work on Chandrayaan-2 also, he added.

However, the composition of the instruments for Chandrayaan-2 would be decided after studying the data received from the first mission, he said.

The second mission, for which the ISRO and Russian federal space agency have already signed a pact, would feature a lander and a rover for a soft land on moon.

“However, there would be a provision for accommodating payloads from other space agencies as is the case of Chandrayaan 1,” Nair said.
In addition to India’s five payloads, Chandrayaan-1 is carrying scientific instruments of the European Space Agency, Bulgaria and the USA.

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Chandrayaan-II funding approved
As we know from earlier announcements, there will be a Russian lander and rover on board. As there will be another Russian lunar rover (Luna-Glob 2) launched by 2012 I ask myself (speculating mode switched on) if will they be sister ships - or actually the very same mission, and the Russians are just marketing Chandrayaan-II's lander element as a separate mission.

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Additional Indian rover on Chandrayaan-II

While the Russian rover weighs about 50 kg, the Indian one is smaller and weighs only 15 kg.

One aim is to gain experience in robotic payloads but the main idea is to achieve the capability of remotely controlling a system to execute various commands communicated from the Bangalore station. India needs to perfect its deep space communication as the space race is so dependent on effecting transmission of commands to the payloads and reception of data collected by them.

At the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), ISRO scientists are working to develop radio frequency transmitters.

These transmitters will travel on the rover, controlling its movement on the moon and directing it to collect samples. The ISRO, however, is not planning to do serious chemical examination on the rover.

Apart from achieving communication prowess, ISRO hopes to learn valuable lessons in soft landing payloads on alien surfaces through the rover experiment.

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.a...nID=fyV9T2jIa4A

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Water on moons prompt ISRO rethink on Chandrayaan-II experiments.

Following findings of Chandrayaan-I, it would have to now look at midcourse correction of its objectives. We have to finetune it. There is some loud thinking on the issue going on," ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters in Bangalore.

Nair indicated that scientists were exploring possibilities of equipping the lunar rover with some instruments that could dig the moon surface and carry out in-situ experiments.

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