chandrayaan-1 Onorbit Experience
- Paper number
IAC-09.A3.2A.3
- Author
Dr. Mylswamy Annadurai, ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), India
- Coauthor
Mr. Srinivasa Hegde, India
- Coauthor
Mr. N. K. Malik, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India
- Coauthor
Dr. Alex TK, India
- Year
2009
- Abstract
Chandrayaan-1 ,the first indian mission to the moon was launched from Shriharkota,india on 22 oct 2008. The mission consists of a lunar polar orbiter and an impact probe. The impact probe carried three instruments namely a video camera,a mass spectrometer and an altimeter. The obiter carries 10 science instruments for the sytematic terrain, chemial and mineral mapping of the whole moon. It also carries a mini synthetic aperture radar and a radiation dose monitor. The mission experience interms of early orbit operations and the normal on-orbit experience will be dealt with in the presentation.
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