Chandrayaan-1 Listed as One of NASA's Top Science, Exploration and Discovery Stories of 2008

Chandrayaan-1 Mission with two NASA Instruments Listed as one of "NASA's Top Science, Exploration and Discovery Stories of 2008 " - NASA Press Release, 15 December, 2008.

NASA's Mini-RF Instrument Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Activated

NASA's Mini-RF Instrument Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Activated and Beigns its Quest to detect Water on the Moon's Polar Regions - Space Daily, 23 December 2008

Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Inagurates 3-D Mapping of Moon

NASA Releases First Images and Data from M3 Instrument Onboard Chandrayaan-1 - M3 Science blog, Brown University, December 2008.

M3 Instrument Onboard Chandrayan-1 Finds Iron-bearing Minerals on the Moon - Space Daily, 29 December 2008.

Development of Cutting-edge Technology

Schematic and viewing mechanism of the Terrain Mapping Camera.

Development of Cutting-edge Technology that Enabled Chandrayaan-1 Mission - Frontline Magazine, 06 December 2008.

Moon Impact Probe's Stereoscopic Camera has Provided Very Good Images

The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) which was released from Chandrayaan-1 on 14 November 2008 from the final orbit of the spacecraft at 100 km altitude has taken 3,000 images using the stereoscopic camera onboard during its 25 minutes travel to the Moon's surface.

MIP Provided Very Good Images - Space Daily, 01 December 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 moon Probe a Big Hit - SpaceflightNow, 25 November 2008.

First RADOM Instrument Results

Earth and Moon Radiation Environment

Chandrayaan-1 Scientific Instruments Commissioned

ISRO Solves Heat Rise Problem and all 11 Instruments are Working Well - BBC News, 19 December 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Operations are Normal despite Heat Rise: ISRO - Space Daily, 26 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Science Data Being Analyzed, as Nine out of Eleven Instruments have been Activated - The Hindu, 26 November 2008.

Indian Moon Probe hit by Heat Rise, as spacecraft temperature reaches 50C prompting urgent measures by ISRO - BBC Online, 25 November 2008.

ISRO Commissions Chandrayaan-1 Scientific Instruments for Moon Observation - Space Daily, 25 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Starts Observations of the Moon - European Space Agency (ESA) News, 24 November 2008.

Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC) to Track, Archive and Disseminate Science Data from Chandrayaan-1 and Future Space Exploration Missions - Frontline Magazine, 22 November 2008.

A Brief Overview of Chandrayaan-1 Scientific instruments:

Chandrayaan-1: Scientific Goals and Mission Objectives - N. Bhandari, Journal of Earth Systems Science, December 2005.

Scientific Challenges of CHANDRAYAAN-1: The Indian lunar polar orbiter mission - N. Bhandari, Current Science, Vol. 86, June 2004.

Moon Mineralogy Mapper: Instrument & Science - JPL, NASA.

Mini-SAR: An Imaging Radar for Chandrayaan-1 and LRO Missions - Ben Bussey, et.al., Workshop on LCROSS, NASA, 2006.

The C1XS X-Ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1 - Manuel Grande, et.al., European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC Abstracts), 2008.


HySI, the Hyper Spectral Imager to Map the Lunar Surface in 64 Spectral Bands for the first time to Access the minerology of the Moon - The Hindu, 20 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Turns On Three Scientific Instruments

India's first Moon Craft, Chandrayaan-1 successfully dispatched the Moon Impact Probe (MIP), painted on its four sides with the Indian national flag, on November 14, 2008 and it landed on the lunar surface after descending for 25 minutes. The spacecraft orbiting the Moon in a circular polar orbit of 100 km altitude has also truned on three instruments, namely, Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC), Radiation Dose Monitor (RADOM) and the Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI) for scientific data collection.

Lunar Equitorial Region picture taken by Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) aboard Chandrayaan-1

Lunar Polar picture taken by Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) aboard Chandrayaan-1

Chandrayaan-1 Marks the Beginning of long haul in ISRO's space exploration - The Hindu, 16 November 2008.

Moonshots Taken by MIP

Pictures Taken by Moon Impact Probe (MIP) As It Descended Towards the Surface of Moon

India Leaves its Footprint on Moon - The Hindu, 15 November 2008.

Indigenous Efforts Take India to the Moon - The Hindu, 15 November 2008.

Indian Probe Lands on the Moon

Moon Impact Probe (MIP), one of the 11 Science Instruments Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Detached from Mother Satellite and Landed on the Moon - Hindustan Times, 14 November 2008.

Indian Tricolor Placed on Moon's Surface on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Birthday - ISRO, 14 November 2008. Indian Moon Probe touches down on Lunar Surface - BBC Online, 14 November 2008.

Indian Probe Crash-lands Successfully on Moon - CNN Online, 14 November 2008.

Indian Tricolor Reaches Lunar Surface - Space Daily, 14 November 2008.

Destination Moon: Special Reports on Chandrayaan-1

First Indian Mooncraft enters Lunar Orbit - SpaceFlightNow, 8 November 2008.

A Historic Voyage: India's First Mission for Lunar Exploration - Frontline Magazine, 5 November 2008.

How Chandrayaan-1 will help compile 3-D Atlas of the Moon - The Hindu, 6 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Gallery - European Space Agency (ESA) Space Science Multimedia

CHANDRAYAAN-1: India's First Mission to Moon - ISRO website

Chandrayaan-1 Beams First Pictures of Earth from 9,000 KM and 70,000 KM

India's Moon Probe Pictures Earth - BBC, 3 November 2008.

Tracking the Progress of Chandrayaan-1 Orbital Maneuvers

Lunar Orbit:

Chandrayaan-1 successfully placed in its operational lunar polar orbit at an altitide of 100 km - The Hindu, 12 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Orbit further reduced to 255 km (aposelene) and 101 km (periselene) - The Hindu, 11 November 2008.

First Lunar Orbit Reduction of Chandrayaan-1 Performed Successfully and placed at 200 km (periselene) and 7,502 km (aposelene) - Space Daily, 11 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Successfully placed in the Lunar Orbit, with 504 km (periselene) and 7502 (aposelene) - The Hindu, 8 November 2008.

Transfer Orbit:
Chandrayaan-1 Enters Lunar Space by fifth LAM firing with 1,000 km perigee (from Moon) and 380,000 km (from Earth) - Times of India, 3 November 2008.

Earth Orbit:
Fourth Orbital Raise of Chandrayann-1 places it at 267,000 km (apogee) and 465 km (perigee) in its Lunar Voyage - The Hindu, 28 October 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 is almost halfway to the Moon with an Orbit of 164,000 km (apogee) and 348 km (perigee) - The Hindu, 26 October 2008.

Chandrayaan's Orbit Raised to 74,175 km (apogee) and 336 km (perigee) and thus becomes the first Indian spacecraft to go beyond the Geosynchronous orbit - The Hindu, 25 October 2008.

Chandrayaan's Orbit Raised to 37,900 km (apogee) and 300 km (perigee) by the spacecraft's onboard LAM - Space Daily, 23 October 2008.

Launch and Initial Orbit:

India's First Lunar voyage, Chandrayaan-1, successfully launched by PSLV-C11 and placed at 22,860 km (apogee) and 255 km (perigee) Orbit - SpaceFlightNow, 22 October 2008.

BBC Online Video and Commentary on Chandrayaan-1 Launch

India Sets its Sight on the moon - BBC Online Video

Indian Media Hails Successfull Launch of the Moon Mission - BBC

FAQ-s; scientific value & timeliness of Chandrayaan - 1

• Chandrayaan - 1 - FAQs (or) visit http://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan/htmls/faqs.htm
  
  
• The Case for India's First Robotic Mission to the Moon (or) visit http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/oct252004/1061.pdf

Successful Launch of Chandrayaan-1 Probe in New York Times

PSLV-C11 Successfully Launches Chandrayaan-1- Live Telecast Screenshot and Press Briefing by ISRO Chairman

Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO displays the model of Chandrayaan-1 at the Press Meet after the launch of PSLV- C11 / Chandrayaan-1 on October 22, 2008

Overview of Chandrayaan-1 and its Scientific Significance - ESA Multimedia

http://a1862.g.akamai.net/7/1862/14448/v1/esa.download.akamai.com/13452/podcast/Chandrayaan_POD_10-10-08.mp4

Ready for Launch !

India Aims for the Moon - Air & Space Magazine, October 21, 2008.

Path to the Moon

How Chandrayaan-1 will reach lunar orbit
After launch, Chandrayaan-1 will go around the earth twice before being fired towards the moon. The entire journey of 386,000 km will take 5.5 days.

Getting Ready for Liftoff!

The fully integrated Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft