The far side images of moon captured by Chandrayaan 1 is released on ISRO’s website. Click the thumbnail images below to download it on your computer.
India’s space scientists have developed hydrogen fuel cells to power an automobile bus by leveraging their know-how of the homegrown cryogenic technology for rockets.
The two-year effort has yielded positive results and the scientists are now readying for the fuel cells to be fitted into a bus.
“That’s not exactly the cryogenic technology… (It’s) liquid hydrogen handling and that’s where we have some expertise. So, we have finalised the design”, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair said.
According to Honorary Adviser of ISRO V Gnana Gandhi leading the technical team in this project, ISRO and Tata Motors entered into an MoU in 2006 to design and develop an automobile bus using hydrogen as a fuel through fuel cell route.
Nair said: “Tatas are taking the responsibility for the locomotive part of it, and hydrogen handling system also.
First protomodel has been assembled. Results are good. May be next year, it should be on the road”.
Gandhi said: “We are planning to integrate the system in the first quarter of next year (January-March 2009), and vehicle integration in the second quarter”.
He said the hydrogen cells are a spin-off of the cryogenic technology that ISRO has been developing for the last few years.
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Another successful day for Indian Space Research Organisation. The Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument, which is onboard in Chandrayaan 1 Spacecraft, is successfully turned on as per the commands from the control centre. The instrument was switched on when the spacecraft was passing through the western visible hemisphere of the moon. Preminilary evalution of the data from LLRI, ISRO scientist has confirmed the normal working of the instrument.
LLRI sends pulses of infrared laser light towards a strip of lunar surface and detects the reflected portion of that light. With this, the instrument can very accurately measure the height of moon’s surface features. LLRI will be continuously kept ON and takes 10 measurements per second on both day and night sides of the moon. It provides topographical details of both polar and equatorial regions of the moon. Detailed analysis of the data sent by LLRI helps in understanding the internal structure of the moon as well as the way that celestial body evolved.
Two days before, on November 14th 2008, India announced it’s presence on moon by the successful job done by the Moon Impact Probe. China, which is one of India’s greatest rival has not planted any National Flag on moon’s surface. This is a great moment for the country. Super Powers like US and Russia has virtually failed on their first attempt. But, We have succeed in our first attempt to the outer space.
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The following two pictures has been released by ISRO, which was taken by the Moon Impact Probe.
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Chandrayaan-1 is the first spacecraft mission of ISRO beyond Earth orbit. Chandrayaan-1 will be followed by Chandrayaan-2 which features a lander and a rover. India and Russia will jointly participate in this project. However, there may be a provision to accommodate payloads from other space agencies as happened in Chandrayaan-1. This apart, studies are being conducted by ISRO on sending unmanned spacecraft to planet Mars as well as to asteroids and comets. Through such programmes, ISRO intends to undertake the exploration of space besides its primary mission of developing and utilising space technology for the overall development of the country.
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