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2006-08-06 India-Pakistan

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#1 GSLV failure not to affect Moon mission: ISRO chief

Ahmedabad: The failure of the geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle will not have any bearing on Chandrayaan, the country's first mission to the Moon, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair said on Saturday.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at the space application centre (SAC) to give away the Astronautial Society of India's annual awards, Nair said, "the GSLV failure will not affect the launch of Chandrayaan because it will be launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

Chandrayaan, an unmanned mission to carry out a chemical and mineral mapping of the moon to understand it better, is scheduled for launch in 2007-08.

Replying to another question, Nair said India had plans to create its own satellite navigational system.

Nair presided over the function in which the prestigious Aryabhata Award was presented to R Narasimha, an expert in aeronautics and astronautics.

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