Facts About Chandrayaan
Mission Timeline
Launch date:October22, 2008
Journey to the Moon: Five-and-a-half day geotransfer orbit
Nominal mission: Two years
About the spacecraft
The craft will be cube shapes, with a length of 1.5 meters on each side and a total mass of 1,050 kilograms.
The satellite’s design is based on ISRO's Kalpansat meteorological satellite, launched in 2002. It will also carry a 30-kilogram probe that will penetrate the lunar surface.
A 750-Watt solar panel together with a Lithium-Ion battery will supply power to the spacecraft. A bipropellant engine will be employed to enter orbit and to maintain the spacecraft's orbit at the Moon.
The total mission cost is Rs3.8 billion.
Orbit
Chandrayaan 1 will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, on a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket. After a five-and-a-half-day 240 by 36,000 kilometer geotransfer orbit, it will end up in a 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) orbit around the Moon. From there, it will drop to a checkout orbit of only 200 kilometers (120 miles) and then a final orbit 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the surface of the Moon, where it will orbit for about two years.
Objectives
The stated scientific objectives of the mission were: * To design, develop, launch and orbit a spacecraft around the Moon using an Indian-made launch vehicle. * Conduct scientific experiments using instruments on the spacecraft which would yield the following data: * Preparation of a three-dimensional atlas (with high spatial and altitude resolution of 5–10 m) of both the near and far side of the Moon. * Chemical and mineralogical mapping of the entire lunar surface at high spatial resolution, mapping particularly the chemical elements magnesium
Magnesiu,
, aluminium, silicon
, calcium
, iron, titanium, radon
, uranium, & thorium o To increase the scientific knowledge o The impact of a sub-satellite (Moon Impact Probe — MIP) on the surface on the Moon as a fore-runner to
Launch date:October22, 2008
Journey to the Moon: Five-and-a-half day geotransfer orbit
Nominal mission: Two years
About the spacecraft
The craft will be cube shapes, with a length of 1.5 meters on each side and a total mass of 1,050 kilograms.
The satellite’s design is based on ISRO's Kalpansat meteorological satellite, launched in 2002. It will also carry a 30-kilogram probe that will penetrate the lunar surface.
A 750-Watt solar panel together with a Lithium-Ion battery will supply power to the spacecraft. A bipropellant engine will be employed to enter orbit and to maintain the spacecraft's orbit at the Moon.
The total mission cost is Rs3.8 billion.
Orbit
Chandrayaan 1 will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, on a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket. After a five-and-a-half-day 240 by 36,000 kilometer geotransfer orbit, it will end up in a 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) orbit around the Moon. From there, it will drop to a checkout orbit of only 200 kilometers (120 miles) and then a final orbit 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the surface of the Moon, where it will orbit for about two years.
Objectives
The stated scientific objectives of the mission were: * To design, develop, launch and orbit a spacecraft around the Moon using an Indian-made launch vehicle. * Conduct scientific experiments using instruments on the spacecraft which would yield the following data: * Preparation of a three-dimensional atlas (with high spatial and altitude resolution of 5–10 m) of both the near and far side of the Moon. * Chemical and mineralogical mapping of the entire lunar surface at high spatial resolution, mapping particularly the chemical elements magnesium
Magnesiu,
, aluminium, silicon
, calcium
, iron, titanium, radon
, uranium, & thorium o To increase the scientific knowledge o The impact of a sub-satellite (Moon Impact Probe — MIP) on the surface on the Moon as a fore-runner to