Bangalore: Key scientists from the country
and abroad, who designed the 11 payloads -- scientific
instruments -- on board India's now-defunct Chandrayaan-I moon
mission spacecraft, will meet in Bangalore on Monday for a technical
review.
Of the 11 payloads through which Chandrayaan-I intended
to achieve its scientific objectives, five were designed and
developed in India, three by European Space Agency, two were
from the United States and one from Bulgaria.
"If some of them have got some preliminary findings, we
will try to make an assessment," chairman of Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair said.
According to Bangalore-headquartered space agency, 95 per
cent of the scientific objectives of Chandrayaan-I mission,
the country's first effort at deep space exploration, have
been completed.
ISRO had planned to take up the remaining work (five percent) in the next season, starting in October, so that all observations could be completed.
But a week ago, the lunar mission, expected to last for
two years, met with a premature end, in just over ten months,
after radio communication with the craft was lost and all
efforts to re-establish it failed.
Nair said, the foreign players, who flew their payloads,
are satisfied with what they achieved. "They have got more
than sufficient data with them. They are extremely happy," he
said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, September 06, 2009, 14:34