Bangalore: For the first time after the launch of Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft mission to Moon, scientists behind the success will meet in Bangalore on January 29 to examine the preliminary data generated by payloads on board Chandrayaan-1.
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), G. Madhavan Nair, said, "All scientists behind Indian payloads (scientific instruments) as well those from guest instruments, including from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been invited. We are expecting all of them to be present in the conference."
Data from preliminary findings of Chandrayan-1 will be examined by scientists at the meeting.
The session will be chaired by senior ISRO scientist, George Joseph.
Chandrayaan carries 11 scientific instruments, including six foreign payloads - two from the US, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from Bulgaria. The other five are indigenously designed and developed by various centres of the state-run ISRO.
The spacecraft was launched on October 22, 2008 on board the 316-tonne polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-C11) from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota spaceport off the Andhra Pradesh coast, about 80 km north of Tamil Nadu capital Chennai.
Chandrayaan entered the lunar orbit on November 8, 2008.
The Imaging X-ray Spectrometer, one of the 11 payloads onboard Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, jointly developed by ISRO and UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, also successfully detected the first X-ray signature from the Moon.
"This is the first step in its mission to reveal the origin and evolution of the Moon by mapping its surface composition", an official from ISRO said.
In orbit around the Moon, Chandrayaan-1 Imaging X ray Spectrometer (C1XS) detected the X-ray signal from a region near the Apollo landing sites on December 12, 2008 at 02:36 UT.
Source: http://indiaedunews.net/Science/ISRO_to_organize_conference_to_discuss_Chandrayaan_data_7279/
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), G. Madhavan Nair, said, "All scientists behind Indian payloads (scientific instruments) as well those from guest instruments, including from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been invited. We are expecting all of them to be present in the conference."
Data from preliminary findings of Chandrayan-1 will be examined by scientists at the meeting.
The session will be chaired by senior ISRO scientist, George Joseph.
Chandrayaan carries 11 scientific instruments, including six foreign payloads - two from the US, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from Bulgaria. The other five are indigenously designed and developed by various centres of the state-run ISRO.
The spacecraft was launched on October 22, 2008 on board the 316-tonne polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-C11) from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota spaceport off the Andhra Pradesh coast, about 80 km north of Tamil Nadu capital Chennai.
Chandrayaan entered the lunar orbit on November 8, 2008.
The Imaging X-ray Spectrometer, one of the 11 payloads onboard Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, jointly developed by ISRO and UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, also successfully detected the first X-ray signature from the Moon.
"This is the first step in its mission to reveal the origin and evolution of the Moon by mapping its surface composition", an official from ISRO said.
In orbit around the Moon, Chandrayaan-1 Imaging X ray Spectrometer (C1XS) detected the X-ray signal from a region near the Apollo landing sites on December 12, 2008 at 02:36 UT.
Source: http://indiaedunews.net/Science/ISRO_to_organize_conference_to_discuss_Chandrayaan_data_7279/
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