Date: 08-Jan-09
Country: JAPAN
Author: Chisa Fujioka
TOKYO - Japan's space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said Wednesday, hoping the data it collects helps global efforts to combat climate change.
At 7:08 am on October 26, 2008, when the spacecraft Chandrayaan-I pushed beyond the 1.5 lakh-km mark in space, it depended on a 32-metre antenna in a quiet saucer-shaped valley about 40 km from Bangalore near a village called Byalalu.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reached new heights today with the launching of a satellite, built jointly by ISRO and EADS-Astrium, which will help in maintaining communication network across Europe, West Asia and North Africa.
The Chandrayaan probe gets clicking THE probing instrument on board Chandrayaan-I with the map of India painted on it dislodged from the spacecraft and hit the surface of the Shackleton crater on the moon on November 14. This crater in the south pole of the moon had earlier been identified by scientists as the place to search for water. During this 25-minute descent to the moon,
A week before the launch it looked like the most unlikely place to house the all-important Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) for the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter mission. The ISSDC is intended to be, according to the website of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),
