Author: Mona, New Delhi. Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft mission with its well defined objectives intends to put its spacecraft into an orbit around the moon and to perform remote sensing of it. It aims to further expand our knowledge about the moon. Thanks to the India’s scientific community for successful put off of first unmanned spacecraft- Chandrayaan-1. Chandrayaan-1: Chandrayaan-1 is a mission with vision of exploration of Moon. It is dictated by Indian national agency for space, ISRO. Under the mission a space craft launched at 6.22 a.m (IST) on 22nd October of 2009 from the Satish Dhwan Space Center situated in Sriharikota of Andhra Pradesh. Chandrayaan is a word derived from language Sanskrit and it simply means “moon-vehicle.” The weight of the space-craft is 1,308 kilograms and it carries remote sensing devices with high resolution for near infrared, visible, hard and soft frequencies of X-ray.Following are some facts about Chandrayaan-1:Launch date: October 22 at 00:52 UTCLunar orbit insertion: November 8 at 11:21 UTCNominal mission: two yearsThe total mission cost is INR 3.8 billion (US $83 million) Spacecraft: Cube shape, with a length of 1.5 meters on each side and a total mass of 1,050 kilograms (523 kilograms initial orbit mass and 440 kilograms dry mass). The satellite design is based on ISRO's Kalpansat meteorological satellite that was launched in 2002. Chandrayaan-1 will also carry a 30-kilogram probe that will penetrate the surface of the Moon. A 750-Watt solar panel together with a Lithium-Ion battery will supply power to the spacecraft. A bipropellant engine will be used to enter orbit and to maintain the spacecraft's orbit at the … [Read more...]
25 Interesting facts and trivia
25 interesting facts: 1. A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood. 2. By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours. 3. Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms. 4. Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River. 5. The colors yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate hunger. 6. If all the salt were to be extracted from the Earth's oceans, you would have enough salt to cover all of the continents five feet deep. 7. If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London. 8. Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day. 9. A leech has 32 brains. 10. Australia has had stamps that actually look like gems. In 1995 and 1996 they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamonds and opals. 11. A lion's roar is so loud that it can be heard five kilometers away. 12. There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose. 13. The most recycled product in the world is the automobile. 14. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 15. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 16. Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system. 17. The first modern toothbrush was invented in China. Its bristles came from hogs hair or the mane of a horse that were then put into ivory … [Read more...]
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