{"id":1172,"date":"2008-10-20T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2008-10-20T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T08:10:05","slug":"sky-is-not-the-limit-for-india-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2008\/10\/20\/sky-is-not-the-limit-for-india-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky is not the limit for India anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine years of hard work, the countdown for<strong> Chandrayaan-1 \u2013 India&#8217;s first unmanned moon mission<\/strong> \u2013 has begun at the Sriharikota space station. The launch is scheduled for early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the moon for about two years, mapping the topography and mineral content of the lunar soil. It will take off from <strong>Sriharikota i<\/strong>n Andhra Pradesh, about 80 km from Chennai, and off the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>The Chandrayaan-1 launch would be around <strong>0620 hrs IST on October 22<\/strong>, weather conditions permitting.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-nine per cent of the integration and testing is complete and the countdown has begun for India&#8217;s historic tryst with the moon.The success of Chandrayaan-1 will catapult India among the top five space exploring countries of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) <strong>Dr G Madhavan Nair<\/strong> said, \u201cIt has been a dream of Indian scientists to send satellites around the moon and collect data about its surface features, minerals and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Experts said that just getting the satellite right isn&#8217;t enough. A huge ground network is needed to monitor and control it. So 30 kilometres outside Bangalore, ISRO built this tracking station.<\/p>\n<p>Director of ISRO Satellite Centre, <strong>TK Alex<\/strong> said, \u201cWe have to make sure that the trajectory is correct. Moon must be exactly where we decided it should be when we designed the satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Indians designed and built everything on this mission \u2013 they weren&#8217;t averse to letting others hitch a ride. There are 11 different machines on board this mission \u2013 f<strong>ive from India, four from Europe and two from NASA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, nine years of hard work will be put to the test. If successful, the Chandrayaan-1 mission will be a clear statement<strong> that sky is not the limit for India anymore. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nine years of hard work, the countdown for Chandrayaan-1 \u2013 India&#8217;s first unmanned moon mission \u2013 has begun at the Sriharikota space station. The launch is scheduled for early Wednesday morning. Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the moon for about two years, mapping the topography and mineral content of the lunar soil. It will take off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}