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2008-04-06 India-Pakistan

India: plan for 70 space missions in 5 years

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Posted by Steve White 2008-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 India plans to launch an advanced remote sensing satellite, Cartosat-2A, on April 28 along with a Third World Satellite (TWSAT) and eight nano satellites on board home-built Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from its spaceport of Sriharikota.

Cartosat-2A will carry a panchromatic camera capable of providing scene-specific spot imageries for cartographic and other applications. "It has better than one metre resolution",

Posted by john frum 2008-04-06 06:50|| 2008-04-06 06:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Space agency ISRO has finalised its project report on India's proposed first manned space mission in 2015 and will submit it to the Government within a few days for approval. "We have now finalised the project report on the manned mission.

Posted by john frum 2008-04-06 06:50|| 2008-04-06 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 India's first planetary mission, Chandrayaan-1, has now been rescheduled to take place in the first week of July as the mission personnel work overtime to sort out payload integration and launch-related issues.

The lunar mission was originally scheduled for April this year, a time-frame targeted four years ago to get all the payloads well ahead of time and to galvanise the scientists into mission mode with a target to work on.

The 525-kg lunar orbiter will carry as many as 11 instruments (payloads), including six from overseas two from the US and one each from Britain, Sweden, Germany and Bulgaria

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