Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Jan 21, 2020 15:26:41 GMT 2
(.#351).- India is still aiming at the moon.
India is still aiming at the moon.
Monday July 15, 2019.
India has taken off yesterday '' July 14, 2019 '' a probe towards the Moon to drop in September a car (rover) the size of a suitcase. The objective of Chandrayaan-2 is to collect data on minerals and rock formations, as well as water (crucial information for future manned missions in the future, making India the fourth-largest country in the world). to land on our natural satellite This is the second lunar mission of the Indian Organization for Space Research, after Chandrayaan-1, in 2008.
CHANDRAYAAN-2
- The 43-meter high Mark III satellite launcher carrying the spacecraft (consisting
of the orbiter and astromobile) will take off from the Shiharikota Island Space
Center.
- The lander must land on the moon and release the astromobile.
- Landing gear: equipped with a seismometer to detect Moonquakes and a
Langmuir probe to measure the fluctuations of the plasma.
- Equipped also with solar panel and antenna, navigation cameras.
- The astromobile will move semi-autonomously and observe the lunar surface
and analyze the soil.
- 100 km: altitude of the orbiter.
- Landing site of the Indian lander: 600 km from the South Pole.
- The orbiter must drop the undercarriage. He also wears measuring
instruments.
THE 4TH COUNTRY ON THE MOON ?
Three countries for the moment have managed to put a gear on our natural satellite:
1966: USSR. Luna 9 is the first probe to land smoothly,
1969: USA. The Apollo 11 mission is the only human exploration of the Moon.
2013: China. Chang'e 3, then Chang'e 4 in January 2019, the first machine to land on
the hidden face of the Moon.
NOTE - Apollo 11 lunar landing spot: Sea of tranquility.
F I N.
India is still aiming at the moon.
Monday July 15, 2019.
India has taken off yesterday '' July 14, 2019 '' a probe towards the Moon to drop in September a car (rover) the size of a suitcase. The objective of Chandrayaan-2 is to collect data on minerals and rock formations, as well as water (crucial information for future manned missions in the future, making India the fourth-largest country in the world). to land on our natural satellite This is the second lunar mission of the Indian Organization for Space Research, after Chandrayaan-1, in 2008.
CHANDRAYAAN-2
- The 43-meter high Mark III satellite launcher carrying the spacecraft (consisting
of the orbiter and astromobile) will take off from the Shiharikota Island Space
Center.
- The lander must land on the moon and release the astromobile.
- Landing gear: equipped with a seismometer to detect Moonquakes and a
Langmuir probe to measure the fluctuations of the plasma.
- Equipped also with solar panel and antenna, navigation cameras.
- The astromobile will move semi-autonomously and observe the lunar surface
and analyze the soil.
- 100 km: altitude of the orbiter.
- Landing site of the Indian lander: 600 km from the South Pole.
- The orbiter must drop the undercarriage. He also wears measuring
instruments.
THE 4TH COUNTRY ON THE MOON ?
Three countries for the moment have managed to put a gear on our natural satellite:
1966: USSR. Luna 9 is the first probe to land smoothly,
1969: USA. The Apollo 11 mission is the only human exploration of the Moon.
2013: China. Chang'e 3, then Chang'e 4 in January 2019, the first machine to land on
the hidden face of the Moon.
NOTE - Apollo 11 lunar landing spot: Sea of tranquility.
F I N.
