India Gearing Up For Chandrayaan Mission

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Hyderabad (SPX) Aug 19, 2005
India is gearing up for its planned Moon mission Chandrayaan two years from now, with top scientists from the country recently gathering in Hyderabad to discuss the design system of the 32 metre diametre deep space network ground station antenna for the mission.

"This antenna will serve as an important component system of the ground support and is currently being finalised at a meeting organised by ECIL and ISRO, and top scientists from the field of space and technology," ECIL Chairman and Managing Director, G P Srivastava, told reporters recently.

"The first of its kind antenna in the country will send signals to the moon mission which will be four lakh kilometres above earth. The moon mission aims at filling information gap that exist about the geology and origin of the moon", Srivastava said.

A K Gupta Director, ECIL, and S K Shivkumar, ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), who were present at the press conference, said that Chandrayaan is the first Indian mission to the moon for undertaking high resolution remote sensing of the lunar surface, aimed at determining the evolutionary process of the moon by studying the mineral and chemical structure of its surface.

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China Inaugurates First Lunar Probe Engineering Center

Beijing (XNA) Aug 23, 2005
China launches its lunar probe engineering center Monday in Beijing as Chinese experts have started their work to develop a satellite to probe the moon.

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