INDIA With Tricolour on the MOON
G Madhavan Nair an ISRO Chairman said, “India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-II, will be launched by 2012. We will have a lander that will drop a small robot on the moon, which will pick samples, analyse data and send the data back. Already the project has been formulated for Chandrayaan-II,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar here.
The Indian Space Research Organisation said, the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on board Chandrayaan-1 is fixed to be released at 8.03 pm or 8.04 pm tonight. It’s expected to hit the lunar surface at around 8.31 pm,” ISRO spokesperson S Satish said.
As a forerunner, yesterday, MIP was detached from the main craft readying it for the final launch towards the moon’s surface.
Only weeks after the blast-off of India’s first unmanned moon mission, the country’s space agency plans to launch its own equivalent of Google Earth, the virtual globe programme, using its satellite network to create a high resolution web-based mapping system. The service, initially covering only India, will be offered at no cost to web users.
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