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India’s first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 initial phase orbit determination

Vighnesam, N. V.; Sonney, Anatta; Gopinath, N. S.

India's first Moon mission Chandrayaan-1 carrying eleven scientific instruments for the purpose of expanding scientific knowledge about the Moon was launched on 22 October 2008. The spacecraft was put into Moon's polar, circular orbit of about (100×100) km on 12 November 2008 by carrying out a sequence of Earth bound and Lunar bound maneuvers. Pre…

New developments in Indian space policies and programmes—The next five years

Sridhara Murthi, K. R.; Bhaskaranarayana, A.; Madhusudana, H. N.

Over past four decades Indian space programme has systematically acquired capabilities in space technologies and implemented its programmes with a high level of focus on societal applications. It is developed into a multi-dimensional programme where its strategy is directed towards diverse stake holders and actors such as government, users and ben…

Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon

Goswami, Jitendra Nath; Annadurai, Mylswamy

Chandrayaan-1 is the first Indian planetary exploration mission that will perform remote sensing observation of the Moon to further our understanding about its origin and evolution. Hyper-spectral studies in the 0.4- 3µm region using three different imaging spectrometers, coupled with a low energy X-ray spectrometer, a sub-keV atom analyzer,…