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[Phil Stooke]

Not a press conference, but a meeting which I hope may result in a press release. But no news yet.

This just in... 'The Hindu' newspaper is reporting that a statement will be issued 'this week'.

Phil Stooke

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

Yeah, but nothing happened. I'm frustrated. As a fellow says, "apparently, it is easier to build a spacecraft than it is to know what to do with it".

I'm starting to lose my interest and I turn my attention to LRO preparations.

[ugordan]

I'm starting to lose my interest and I turn my attention to LRO preparations.

You, my friend, would have had a hard time in the 80s, 70s, and 60s...

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

You are right. Computers and internet made the constant flow of information possible. Now we have UMSF , a great resource. This is why I find it hard to accept they are keeping this for themselves for so long.

[callisto]

Indian newspaper often report about regular conferences encompassing the entire Chandrayaan team(including foriegn agencies) where information from chandrayaan is discussed and analysed.So i guess the lack of information has to do with poor PR skills of ISRO.

[Guest_Enceladus75_*]

ISRO are utterly atrocious at PR and releasing information to the public about Chandryaan 1. I could understand if they were cautious to announce important science results, but their silence has gone on for far too long.

I've lost all interest in this mission as a result.

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

I totally agree with you.

We have waited for more than 30 years to send a lander to the Moon (even if it's a simple impactor). Now India sent an impactor there and they're hiding the pictures.

[Stu]

Worth dropping them a line and asking - politely - about a release date for the pictures, pointing out the huge PR success enjoyed by the MER team..?

info@isro.gov.in

[shankar]

I have a feeling that Isro MAY release some data this week on the sidelines of AERO INDIA 2009 in Bangalore. Also there was a meeting of all PIs recently on the occasion of 100 days of chandrayaan-1 mission to discuss and review the data. So if we are lucky we might see some releases.

[Phil Stooke]

Those dying of curiosity can find another image here:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2009/pdf/1584.pdf

Phil

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

Actually, tons of new data:

ftp://ftp.lpi.usra.edu/pub/outgoing/lpsc2009/full202.pdf

ftp://ftp.lpi.usra.edu/pub/outgoing/lpsc2009/full252.pdf

[Phil Stooke]

"Unfortunately, due to thermal constraints the spacecraft cannot point to the Earth to downlink data every orbit as initially planned, but only every third orbit. This means that only 1/3 of the data can be sent to Earth compared to what was initially forseen. These things happen in the space business… The good news is that there is more fuel left on board the spacecraft than planned - thus the mission can be extended long over the planned two years which means that the planned global coverage can still be achieved, it will only take longer."

Phil

http://cosmicdiary.org/blogs/esa/detlef_koschny/?p=37

[Phil Stooke]

Here is a clip on Youtube - from NDTV (New Delhi TV) reporting on the first 100 days of operation and the meeting in Bangalore - the one we hoped would lead to press releases etc. The clip includes images from the impact probe, showing how the rotating probe took images during descent.

Phil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f5qLMPIfe4

[Phil Stooke]

I'm in the process of taking screen shots from the NDTV video of MIP images and making mosaics of the frames. Then I can match the locations of the mosaics to a map and trace the path of the probe. ISRO - beat me to it! (please).

Phil

[djellison]

I was just trying the same thing - I'm not sure where to 'go' next with the next frame though.

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