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India agrees to aid NASA in MoonRise mission
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to build an orbiter that will provide the communication between the soil samples collected from the far side of the moon and the earth in 2016, according to ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan.
This joint venture between the ISRO and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, would be part of the MoonRise mission planned by the NASA, reports The Hindu on April 20, 2011. The NASA MoonRise mission would focus on the giant South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side, which lies between the Moon's South Pole and Aitken Crater, just 16° south of the Moon's equator for a soil sample return.
“This project is in the planning phase, alongside India's lunar mission programme centred on Chandrayaan-2,” he said which will put a spacecraft in orbit around the moon by a Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in 2013 in a joint mission with Russia. The spacecraft and the rover would be built by India, the lander would be built by Russian space engineers.
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This is what i learnt from net:
Moonrise, to be launched from NASA, will place an ISRO made satellite in moon orbit that will serve as a communication link between the earth and an American moon lander that will bring back nearly one kg of moon rock back to Earth for further analysis.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to build an orbiter that will provide the communication between the soil samples collected from the far side of the moon and the earth in 2016, according to ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan.
This joint venture between the ISRO and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, would be part of the MoonRise mission planned by the NASA, reports The Hindu on April 20, 2011. The NASA MoonRise mission would focus on the giant South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side, which lies between the Moon's South Pole and Aitken Crater, just 16° south of the Moon's equator for a soil sample return.
“This project is in the planning phase, alongside India's lunar mission programme centred on Chandrayaan-2,” he said which will put a spacecraft in orbit around the moon by a Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in 2013 in a joint mission with Russia. The spacecraft and the rover would be built by India, the lander would be built by Russian space engineers.
---------- Post added at 06:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:14 PM ----------
This is what i learnt from net:
Moonrise, to be launched from NASA, will place an ISRO made satellite in moon orbit that will serve as a communication link between the earth and an American moon lander that will bring back nearly one kg of moon rock back to Earth for further analysis.
