From the outside, the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network Centre (ISTRAC) at Peenya, Bangalore, looks like any other government office. But it is a different story inside

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Interview with S.K. Shivakumar, ISTRAC Director.

S.K. Shivakumar:

Interview with M. Annadurai, project director, Chandrayaan-1 .

M. Annadurai:

The spacecraft, integrated with its payloads, was tested for three months for communication between instruments and with the ground.
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Interview with G. Madhavan Nair, ISRO Chairman.

An important task for four of the 11 instruments on board Chandrayaan-1 is to look for confirmation of the presence of water-ice in the permanently shadowed regions of the south and north poles of the moon, according to Dr. M.Y.S. Prasad, Associate Director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

Sending a spacecraft on a lunar mission involves navigating it, controlling it and communicating with it as it travels deep into space towards the moon. The moon

Chandrayaan-1 is moving closer to the moon and is expected to enter its lunar orbit on November 15.

The earth as seen by Chandrayaan-1 from a height of 70,000 km. This image, the second taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera of the spacecraft on October 29, shows Australia's southern coast.