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Hey the mars mission is already in planning stage can expect it after 2012.
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The Hindu : Front Page : Every Indian should be proud of Chandrayaan, says Kalam
Every Indian should be proud of Chandrayaan, says Kalam
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BANGALORE: Byalalu village near Bangalore had a high profile visitor on Saturday. The former President, A.P. J. Abdul Kalam, visited the Indian Deep Space Network and the giant antenna here and expressed his desire to see an Indian scientist land on the moon by 2021. “I would be 90 years old then,” he told a gathering of senior scientists.
G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) presented Mr. Kalam with a picture of the Earth taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera on board Chandrayaan-1 from an altitude of 70,000 km.
Earlier in the day, speaking to reporters after launching an emergency response service in the city, Mr. Kalam said he believed that every Indian should be proud of the Chandrayaan, the country’s first moon mission programme taken up by ISRO.
The images captured by the spacecraft were of high resolution and quality and therefore “an indication of what it holds for the future,” he added. On November 8, when Chandrayaan leaves the Earth’s gravity and enters the moon’s orbit, will be the next milestone for the mission, Mr. Kalam said.
Every Indian should be proud of Chandrayaan, says Kalam
Bangalore Bureau
BANGALORE: Byalalu village near Bangalore had a high profile visitor on Saturday. The former President, A.P. J. Abdul Kalam, visited the Indian Deep Space Network and the giant antenna here and expressed his desire to see an Indian scientist land on the moon by 2021. “I would be 90 years old then,” he told a gathering of senior scientists.
G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) presented Mr. Kalam with a picture of the Earth taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera on board Chandrayaan-1 from an altitude of 70,000 km.
Earlier in the day, speaking to reporters after launching an emergency response service in the city, Mr. Kalam said he believed that every Indian should be proud of the Chandrayaan, the country’s first moon mission programme taken up by ISRO.
The images captured by the spacecraft were of high resolution and quality and therefore “an indication of what it holds for the future,” he added. On November 8, when Chandrayaan leaves the Earth’s gravity and enters the moon’s orbit, will be the next milestone for the mission, Mr. Kalam said.
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something in expected lines:
Chinese media questions Chandrayaan's success-China-World-The Times of India
Chinese media questions Chandrayaan's success
2 Nov 2008, 2037 hrs IST, Saibal Dasgupta, TNN
BEIJING: India's Chandrayaan mission may have evoked a good bit of national pride and come in for praise from different quarters worldwide including the White House in Washington. But a large section of the Chinese media has raised questions published articles questioning the success of Chandrayaan.
The articles question the contention of Indian Space Research Organisation, which said that Chandrayaan had an apogee of 37,800km with an orbital period of 73 hours. The articles in the Chinese media state that the apogee was only around 16,400 km with an orbital tour of 11 hours.
Most of the articles have been published in websites and blogs popular with the military and nationalist politicians. They include bulletin boards of websites that are linked to government organizations. But the general newspapers have refrained from taking a critical view of the Indian space mission. Most of them are copies of a single article.
The critical articles claim they were the result of analysis of data released by LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE TRACKING, which is a site devoted real time tracking of satellite launched across the world and contains a lot of technical information. Interestingly, the website of US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration has published an article on Chandrayaan without raising any doubts about it.
Most of the articles are copies of a single piece using almost similar text. The headline common several of the pieces in different websites are: "Orbit not very normal; has India's Chandrayaan-1 run into problem?"
A search on the Chinese search engine, Baidu and the Chinese version of Google throws up several websites where the same article has been pasted. It seems someone or some agency has gone into a good deal of effort to ensure that the article is widely circulated across several media networks including those that represent government agencies.
Some of the Chinese sites also published Chinese versions of another English article, which described Chandrayaan mission as a case of major success in a country that has not been able to curb human rights violations and address the problem of poverty adequately. The source of this second article has not been clarified.
"Though India's human rights performance has been dismal in the last decade with right wing Hindu chauvinists targeting two large minorities of the country, Christians and Muslims but it has not hindered India's ascendance to the big league in the space," the version in the Chinese media said.
Chinese media questions Chandrayaan's success-China-World-The Times of India
Chinese media questions Chandrayaan's success
2 Nov 2008, 2037 hrs IST, Saibal Dasgupta, TNN
BEIJING: India's Chandrayaan mission may have evoked a good bit of national pride and come in for praise from different quarters worldwide including the White House in Washington. But a large section of the Chinese media has raised questions published articles questioning the success of Chandrayaan.
The articles question the contention of Indian Space Research Organisation, which said that Chandrayaan had an apogee of 37,800km with an orbital period of 73 hours. The articles in the Chinese media state that the apogee was only around 16,400 km with an orbital tour of 11 hours.
Most of the articles have been published in websites and blogs popular with the military and nationalist politicians. They include bulletin boards of websites that are linked to government organizations. But the general newspapers have refrained from taking a critical view of the Indian space mission. Most of them are copies of a single article.
The critical articles claim they were the result of analysis of data released by LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE TRACKING, which is a site devoted real time tracking of satellite launched across the world and contains a lot of technical information. Interestingly, the website of US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration has published an article on Chandrayaan without raising any doubts about it.
Most of the articles are copies of a single piece using almost similar text. The headline common several of the pieces in different websites are: "Orbit not very normal; has India's Chandrayaan-1 run into problem?"
A search on the Chinese search engine, Baidu and the Chinese version of Google throws up several websites where the same article has been pasted. It seems someone or some agency has gone into a good deal of effort to ensure that the article is widely circulated across several media networks including those that represent government agencies.
Some of the Chinese sites also published Chinese versions of another English article, which described Chandrayaan mission as a case of major success in a country that has not been able to curb human rights violations and address the problem of poverty adequately. The source of this second article has not been clarified.
"Though India's human rights performance has been dismal in the last decade with right wing Hindu chauvinists targeting two large minorities of the country, Christians and Muslims but it has not hindered India's ascendance to the big league in the space," the version in the Chinese media said.
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i think its just the work of some anti-indian chinese nationalists, rather than the govt or the public in general.
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Doesn't matter guys. There will always be such people who can't bear to see others progress.
I don't think that is the general feeling of the Chinese people or the government policy.
Lets move on. Eagerly waiting for the Chandrayan to get into the Moon's orbit.
I don't think that is the general feeling of the Chinese people or the government policy.
Lets move on. Eagerly waiting for the Chandrayan to get into the Moon's orbit.
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Chandrayaan enters lunar space for final journey-India-The Times of India
Chandrayaan enters lunar space for final journey
4 Nov 2008, 0920 hrs IST, IANS
BANGALORE: India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-I entered the lunar space early Tuesday for its final journey into the lunar orbit Saturday, an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
"The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very well. The complex manouvre was carried out around 5am by firing the liquid apogee motor (LAM) on board for about I50 seconds to place the unmanned spacecraft 380,000 km away from earth (apogee) and I,000 km from the moon," ISRO director S. Satish said.
The distance between earth and moon is about 384,000 km.
Preparations for the next major manoeuvre will begin soon to enable the spacecraft enters lunar orbit November 8 and positions itself about 100 km from the moon's surface.
"Chandrayaan has commenced its final journey towards the moon and will be inserted into the lunar orbit Saturday through complex manoeuvres from the space control centre of ISRO's telemetry, tracking and command network (Istrac) here," Satish said.
Even as the spacecraft gets ready for its rendezvous with the moon, its terrain-mapping camera (TMC) will shoot pictures of the earth and moon orbiting in 380,000 km (apogee) by 1,000 km (perigee).
"The images will be beamed to Istrac's space centre through electrical signals for processing and developing into high resolution pictures of one-five metres," Satish added.
All functions on board the satellite are performing well and its health parameters are normal. It is also able to send and receive signals from ISRO's deep space network (DSN) at Byalalu, about 40km from here.
Chandrayaan is carrying 11 scientific instruments, including six foreign payloads - two from the US, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from Bulgaria. The remaining five are indigenously designed and developed by various centres of the state-run ISRO.
The spacecraft was blasted off October 22 on board the 316 tonne polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-CII) from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota spaceport, about 80km north of Chennai.
Chandrayaan enters lunar space for final journey
4 Nov 2008, 0920 hrs IST, IANS
BANGALORE: India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-I entered the lunar space early Tuesday for its final journey into the lunar orbit Saturday, an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
"The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very well. The complex manouvre was carried out around 5am by firing the liquid apogee motor (LAM) on board for about I50 seconds to place the unmanned spacecraft 380,000 km away from earth (apogee) and I,000 km from the moon," ISRO director S. Satish said.
The distance between earth and moon is about 384,000 km.
Preparations for the next major manoeuvre will begin soon to enable the spacecraft enters lunar orbit November 8 and positions itself about 100 km from the moon's surface.
"Chandrayaan has commenced its final journey towards the moon and will be inserted into the lunar orbit Saturday through complex manoeuvres from the space control centre of ISRO's telemetry, tracking and command network (Istrac) here," Satish said.
Even as the spacecraft gets ready for its rendezvous with the moon, its terrain-mapping camera (TMC) will shoot pictures of the earth and moon orbiting in 380,000 km (apogee) by 1,000 km (perigee).
"The images will be beamed to Istrac's space centre through electrical signals for processing and developing into high resolution pictures of one-five metres," Satish added.
All functions on board the satellite are performing well and its health parameters are normal. It is also able to send and receive signals from ISRO's deep space network (DSN) at Byalalu, about 40km from here.
Chandrayaan is carrying 11 scientific instruments, including six foreign payloads - two from the US, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from Bulgaria. The remaining five are indigenously designed and developed by various centres of the state-run ISRO.
The spacecraft was blasted off October 22 on board the 316 tonne polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-CII) from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota spaceport, about 80km north of Chennai.
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'Bhuvan'- India's answer to Google Earth
Gandhinagar (PTI): ISRO will soon launch 'Bhuvan', which will provide online maps based on Geographical Information System (GIS) in line of Google Earth, ISRO chairman, G Madhavan Nair said here on Tuesday.
"ISRO is planning to launch 'Bhuvan'. It is equivalent to the Google Earth, but is going to be much more precise," said Nair, who was here to attend the inaugural function of the 28th INCA International Congress on Collaborative Mapping and Space Technology.
"It will provide the latest information on our natural resources. We are going to provide very accurate maps of the region with the latest picture. This will be more beneficial for the people of the country," he said.
"The service likely to commence in the coming six months, will be available to the people in appropriate manner. This will provide valuable and updated information to the people," Nair said.
"The software and infrastructure necessary for the service is being established," he said. "Though most of the information will be online, but precision data will be given to selected users only," Nair said.
The ISRO chairman said with this service they will have mapping of the entire earth, both in terms of the upper land surface and the exotic minerals down below. Nair also delivered the Todar Mul Memorial lecture on the occasion and briefed the participants about the Indian space programme and its application in day-to-day life.
'Bhuvan'- India's answer to Google Earth
Gandhinagar (PTI): ISRO will soon launch 'Bhuvan', which will provide online maps based on Geographical Information System (GIS) in line of Google Earth, ISRO chairman, G Madhavan Nair said here on Tuesday.
"ISRO is planning to launch 'Bhuvan'. It is equivalent to the Google Earth, but is going to be much more precise," said Nair, who was here to attend the inaugural function of the 28th INCA International Congress on Collaborative Mapping and Space Technology.
"It will provide the latest information on our natural resources. We are going to provide very accurate maps of the region with the latest picture. This will be more beneficial for the people of the country," he said.
"The service likely to commence in the coming six months, will be available to the people in appropriate manner. This will provide valuable and updated information to the people," Nair said.
"The software and infrastructure necessary for the service is being established," he said. "Though most of the information will be online, but precision data will be given to selected users only," Nair said.
The ISRO chairman said with this service they will have mapping of the entire earth, both in terms of the upper land surface and the exotic minerals down below. Nair also delivered the Todar Mul Memorial lecture on the occasion and briefed the participants about the Indian space programme and its application in day-to-day life.
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