INDIA'S first mission to moon

CHANDRAYAAN - 1

PSLV-C11 Successfully Launches Chandrayaan-1

Oh boy !!! This is a real amazing acheivement and a GREAT HONOUR for our country and to all INDIANS.

"A feather in the cap indeed".

WHAT : An unmanned Lunar Exploration mission

WHERE : INDIA

BY WHOM : Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India's National Space Agency

TRAVEL FROM : Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC) in Sriahri-kota island

TRAVEL TO : MOON (of course ; )

WHEN : 22 October 2008, at 6:22 AM Indian Standard Time (00:52 UTC)

THE VEHICLE : PSLV(Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) built by ISRO, India

TRAVEL TIME : After the spacecraft reaches its lunar transfer orbit, it will take 5.5 days to reach the Moon.

COST ESTIMATES : Cost to be Rs. 3.86 billion (US$ 80 million).

Chandrayaan's Network

Chandrayaan I - Official website
http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/home.htm

Other Sites
http://www.isro.gov.in/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan

Next What ?????

Chandrayaan II

The ISRO is also planning a second version of Chandrayaan named: Chandrayaan II. According to ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land a motorised rover on the Moon in 2010 or 2011, as a part of its second Chandrayaan mission. The rover will be designed to move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do in situ chemical analysis and send the data to the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan II, which will be orbiting above. Chandrayaan II will transmit the data to Earth."

Organization : Indian Space Research Organization

Mission type : Orbiter, Rover

Satellite of : Moon

Launch date : 2010/2011

Mission duration : 1 month (rover)

Mass : 30 to 100 kg (rover)

Keep watching, India Rocks.