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Wed, 10/22/2008 - 18:34
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World space agencies welcome Indian moon mission
New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) The successful launch of
India's maiden unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 on
Wednesday has catapulted the country into the league of a
select group of nations which already have sojourn with the
mystical satellite of Earth - the Moon.
Leading space agencies of the world have congratulated
Indian Space Research Organisation (I.S.R.O.) for its effort.
"We congratulate I.S.R.O. on this successful launch
and welcome this new mission to the Moon. India is one of
the few countries that have accomplished significant
achievements in space activities," a spokesperson of European
Space Agency's (E.S.A.) Director General said in an e-mail to
P.T.I.
"With Chandrayaan-1, I.S.R.O. has taken up a new
challenge taking a step beyond Earth orbit into deep space,"
he said.
European Space Agency is providing active cooperation
to I.S.R.O. in operations, data handling, flight dynamics for
the mission.
The agency is also coordinating the provision of three
European instruments for the mission, two of which were
already flown on SMART-1, the first lunar spacecraft of E.S.A.
launched in 2003.
The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) is one of
the core instruments that will carry out high-quality, X-ray
spectroscopic mapping of the Moon; the near infrared
spectrometer, SIR-2, a near-infrared spectrometer will study
the chemical composition of the Moons crust's and mantle and
the Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyser (S.A.R.A.) will be the
first- ever lunar experiment dedicated to direct studies of
plasma-surface interactions in space.
N.A.S.A.'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where the
Chandrayaan's key component Moon Mineralogy Mapper was
developed also lauded the efforts of I.S.R.O.
"The Chandrayaan-1 mission is a unique achievement in
India's space programme. The entire Chandrayaan-1 team is to
be congratulated for the tremendous effort," David Agle from
Jet Propulsion Lab (J.P.L.) said.
The mapper will help provide the first map of the
entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolution,
revealing the minerals of which the moon is made, he said.
Of the total eleven instruments that the maiden Indian
spacecraft carried, three were from the United States, two
from the E.S.A. and one from Bulgaria. PTI ABS
SHN
India's maiden unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 on
Wednesday has catapulted the country into the league of a
select group of nations which already have sojourn with the
mystical satellite of Earth - the Moon.
Leading space agencies of the world have congratulated
Indian Space Research Organisation (I.S.R.O.) for its effort.
"We congratulate I.S.R.O. on this successful launch
and welcome this new mission to the Moon. India is one of
the few countries that have accomplished significant
achievements in space activities," a spokesperson of European
Space Agency's (E.S.A.) Director General said in an e-mail to
P.T.I.
"With Chandrayaan-1, I.S.R.O. has taken up a new
challenge taking a step beyond Earth orbit into deep space,"
he said.
European Space Agency is providing active cooperation
to I.S.R.O. in operations, data handling, flight dynamics for
the mission.
The agency is also coordinating the provision of three
European instruments for the mission, two of which were
already flown on SMART-1, the first lunar spacecraft of E.S.A.
launched in 2003.
The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) is one of
the core instruments that will carry out high-quality, X-ray
spectroscopic mapping of the Moon; the near infrared
spectrometer, SIR-2, a near-infrared spectrometer will study
the chemical composition of the Moons crust's and mantle and
the Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyser (S.A.R.A.) will be the
first- ever lunar experiment dedicated to direct studies of
plasma-surface interactions in space.
N.A.S.A.'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where the
Chandrayaan's key component Moon Mineralogy Mapper was
developed also lauded the efforts of I.S.R.O.
"The Chandrayaan-1 mission is a unique achievement in
India's space programme. The entire Chandrayaan-1 team is to
be congratulated for the tremendous effort," David Agle from
Jet Propulsion Lab (J.P.L.) said.
The mapper will help provide the first map of the
entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolution,
revealing the minerals of which the moon is made, he said.
Of the total eleven instruments that the maiden Indian
spacecraft carried, three were from the United States, two
from the E.S.A. and one from Bulgaria. PTI ABS
SHN
