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T.S. Subramanian
Indian payloads will map lunar surface Chandrayaan will carry moon impact probe
Chennai: Michael D. Griffin, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States, will visit three key facilities of the Indian Space Research Organisation between May 9 and 11. On Tuesday he and ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair will sign a memorandum of understanding in Bangalore for Chandrayaan, ISRO's spacecraft to the moon, to carry two U.S. scientific payloads to conduct experiments. Plans are afoot for the ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to launch Chandrayaan from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, in 2007-08. The U.S. payloads are a mini synthetic aperture radar from the Applied Physics Laboratory to detect water in the polar region of the moon; and a mapper from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to prospect for minerals on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan, weighing 525 kg in the lunar orbit, will carry several payloads including from India, the European Space Agency and Bulgaria. The Indian payloads include those that will map the lunar surface, and measure the solar and fluorescent x-rays there. Chandrayaan will carry a moon impact probe, which is conceived as a forerunner in technology for India's future landing missions on the moon. On Tuesday Mr. Griffin will visit the ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore. The next day he will go round the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, and watch the launch of the sounding rocket RH-200 from Thumba.
To visit Thumba
He will also visit the Thumba museum, which showcases VSSC/ISRO history. The museum is located at St. Mary Magdalene Church, which formed the nursery of ISRO. It was in this church the sounding rockets of ISRO were assembled in its infancy. The nearby Bishop's House was the mission control centre for these launches. On May 11, Mr. Griffin will visit the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
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