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India's next moon mission depends on Russia: ISRO chief
Sunday September 09, 2012 03:10:09 PM,
Venkatachari Jagannathan,
IANS
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Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): India's second moon mission will depend on Russia's
decision after a failed inter-planetary mission with China, ISRO
chairman said Sunday, a day when the Indian space agency launched
its 100th mission.
"Russia is reviewing its inter-planetary missions after a failed
joint mission with China. For Chandrayaan-2, Russia has to provide
the lander.
"India will build the lunar orbiter and rover. Russia has said
they would come to us with a decision after their review," K.
Radhakrishnan told reporters.
The Chandrayaan 2 is planned for 2014 with India's heavier rocket
-- Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
Radhakrishnan said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will
ready the rocket and also the lunar orbiter and rover.
While reports are there that the Chandrayaan 2 project may get
delayed to 2016, Radhakrishnan did not comment on it.
For its 100th mission, ISRO Sunday launched a Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle-C21 carrying SPOT 6, a 712-kg French earth
observation satellite, and Proiteres, a 15-kg Japanese micro
satellite, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in
Andhra Pradesh.
ISRO is now eagerly looking forward to its Mars mission planned
for next year.
Ruling out that India was in race with China for the Mars mission,
Radhakrishnan said: "Mars mission is a challenging one where we
will develop new technologies."
He said ISRO was studying the Mars mission since August 2010 and
the union cabinet had recently approved the project.
He said the Mars mission was much more challenging than
Chandrayaan 1 mission since it required taking the orbiter from
the initial orbit into the Mars orbit as the distance to be
covered was huge.
Radhakrishnan said the other major challenge was tracking the
satellite with deep space network.
He said to realise the Mars mission next year, ISRO centres were
working hard to perfect the GSLV rocket technology including the
cryogenic engine technology.
On the expansion of facilities at the space port here,
Radhakrishnan said ISRO had decided to set up a Multi Object
Tracking Radar to track the space debris and to time its rocket
launches precisely.
He said ISRO was also planning to have a second vehicle (rocket)
assembly building to facilitate increasing launch frequency.
He said ISRO would build two more communication satellites - GSAT
15 and GSAT 16 - to augment its transponder (transmitters that
receive and send signals) capacity.
(Venkatachari Jagannathan can be contacted at v.jagannathan@ians.in)
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