The Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and Space Application Centre (SAC), ISRO in Ahmadabad did not have a successful moon mission; radio contact with the Chandrayann-1 satellite was lost last Saturday.
However, the scientists involved in the mission are not giving up hope of gaining useful data that they were able to gather through Chandrayaan-1 before the mission was suddenly terminated.
The deputy director of SAC, ISRO, Kiran Kumar, is still hoping that the mission will be revived in the future. According to him, "It is a great loss but the entire Chandrayaan-1 team is watching for any chance to retain the mission. We will be meeting principal investigators of the instruments aboard Chandrayaan-1 in the first week of September. The team was hopeful that the mission would cover its two-year period."
Also, according to Kumar, while the mission is terminated, the data collected through the satellite will be analysed.
Chandrayaan-1 is orbiting the moon to survey its surface and take high-resolution images of it. The mission aims to make a map of the moon’s three-dimensional topography and chemical features.
One of the members of the science advisory board for Chandrayaan-1, Professor Narenda Bhandari, said, "It is difficult to ascertain reasons for loss of contact. We have excelled in departments like propulsion system, reaching the moon in a precise manner. However, the thermal profiling and the sun sensors on the satellite did not give the expected result."
Professor Bhandari studies the moon’s chemical composition on its surface.
"The most important thing for us now is to ascertain answers from the collected data," Bhandari added.
However, the scientists involved in the mission are not giving up hope of gaining useful data that they were able to gather through Chandrayaan-1 before the mission was suddenly terminated.
The deputy director of SAC, ISRO, Kiran Kumar, is still hoping that the mission will be revived in the future. According to him, "It is a great loss but the entire Chandrayaan-1 team is watching for any chance to retain the mission. We will be meeting principal investigators of the instruments aboard Chandrayaan-1 in the first week of September. The team was hopeful that the mission would cover its two-year period."
Also, according to Kumar, while the mission is terminated, the data collected through the satellite will be analysed.
Chandrayaan-1 is orbiting the moon to survey its surface and take high-resolution images of it. The mission aims to make a map of the moon’s three-dimensional topography and chemical features.
One of the members of the science advisory board for Chandrayaan-1, Professor Narenda Bhandari, said, "It is difficult to ascertain reasons for loss of contact. We have excelled in departments like propulsion system, reaching the moon in a precise manner. However, the thermal profiling and the sun sensors on the satellite did not give the expected result."
Professor Bhandari studies the moon’s chemical composition on its surface.
"The most important thing for us now is to ascertain answers from the collected data," Bhandari added.
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