Comments on: India has Big Plans for Lunar Exploration

By: jayakumar

jayakumar — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:58:40 +0000

Chandrayaan-1 lunched sucessfully today(22/10/2008).

cheers:)

By: dileep

dileep — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:02:55 +0000

Note that America is not reliable. For Example, they signed contract with India on global navigation system. But they stoped that facility for 2 times at the time of their war with Iraq.
I strongly suggest not to go with America for india's lunar mission – III.

By: On the anvil

On the anvil — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:40:56 +0000

Its not "in the anvil"; the correct usage is "on the anvil"

By: jai

jai — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:15:01 +0000

ISRO is doing a great work where it is reducing its dependence on major powers on space technology and developing projects on its own.Hope it will have a mission to mars in by 2020.

cheers.

By: Sagarika

Sagarika — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:26:28 +0000

Very Good, ISRO….
ISRO should include a probe to investigate the moon if it can handle India's part of the population. As such there is nothing more to find on the moon, except some space for this extra population. China should also support ISRO in this mission.

By: Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:51:29 +0000

Imagine.. by 2020 we could find ourselves in a 4-way space race – USA, Russia, China, and India.

Or even 5-way, if the European Union has become much more tightly integrated by then and is launching their own manned misions as well.

By: Tech Roach

Tech Roach — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:19:05 +0000

Wansh, there is plan for an RLV which is almost what a space shuttle does. Its reusable. But initially, its gonna be unmanned.

They're planning a Mach 7-8 velocity machine. Something which looks like a ScramJet.

By: wansh013

wansh013 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:00:08 +0000

these plans have been long in the pipeline.. ISRO has already started commercial flights for payloads and their are no plans for the space shuttle… it is just an idea often discussed in ISRO but as such there are no actual plans

By: Jaseem Umer

Jaseem Umer — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:40:38 +0000

Come on India.

By: Clan Chattan

Clan Chattan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:22:00 +0000

Well done India for realising that space resources are the way to finance the future.

By: John -- www.moonposter.ie

John -- www.moonposter.ie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:02:37 +0000

Yes, October is the latest date for launch — ISRO say it is due to vacuum tests that have yet to be carried out on the launch vehicle.

NASA and ESA and Bulgaria are also involved with this mission (with scientific instruments onboard…etc.,), and it has been suggested that if India attracts more international partners in the near future, their intended 2020 manned mission to the Moon could be shortened by upto a year.

For a country like India achieving great strides in this area, it has to be very encouraging for other countries — who wouldn't normally be thinking about the Moon, but have other space activities — to get more involved in lunar research.

For more about Chandrayaan-1, check out my Mission's Page here — > http://www.moonposter.ie/missions.htm
Check out the poster too

By: Tech Roach

Tech Roach — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:22:38 +0000

Did you know that an INDIAN SPACE SHUTTLE is in the anvil ? Well it is.

It won't be a copy of the American and Soviet space shuttles. India's one is unmanned (initially) but manned exploration is also being researched.

By: Sri

Sri — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:33:51 +0000

Chandrayan 1 has been in plans for a long time now and it is actually a project that also lets other nations to piggy ride on ISRO's vehicle to moon.

http://www.isro.org/Chandrayaan/htmls/psexperiments.htm

It was planned for March/April of this year but got postponed to September and the finally to October of this year.

Chandrayan 2 is already in plans….

"India had signed MoU with Russia for the Chandrayan 2 project, which will have an Orbiter that would go around the moon and a Lander or Rover which would collect samples from moon's surface after landing on it."

By: kiran

kiran — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:10:31 +0000

Thanks for update.

Here is the link in india's top national paper which gives information about Chandrayaan I . http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/07/stories/2008080754921300.htm

According to the chairman of isro chandrayaan is slated to launch in mid october this year.