ISRO loses communication with chandrayaan-1
The Radio communication with Chandrayaan-1 was abruptly lost after friday (28 Aug 2009 ) midnight at 0130 Hrs (IST) on Saturday. ISRO scientists are reviewing the telemetry data received from the spacecraft before losing communication to analyse the health of sub-systems of spacecraft.
AS per earlier news for ISRO, though Chandrayaan-1 has achieved 90 per cent of his task and there is no major worry as such..this is a serious one. and they are working hard to rectify the problem.
About Chandrayaan-1:
Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on October 22, 2008 .The Spacecraft has completed 312 days in orbit making more than 3400 orbits around the Moon and providing large volume of data from sophisticated sensors like Terrain Mapping Camera, Hyper-spectral Imager, Moon Mineralogy Mapper etc., meeting most of the scientific objectives of the mission.
Second time in its life:
This is the second time that chandrayaan is running into trouble. month back it developed a snag when it lost one of its sensors which forced ISRO to push its orbit from 100 kilometers to 200 kilometers from the moon’s surface. The change in orbit meant the data would be of lower quality.
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