Chandrayaan-I estimated to cost Rs 400 crore
Puducherry (PTI): Chandrayaan-I, India's planned mission to the Moon, is estimated to cost around Rs 400 crore Director of Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmedabad) Prof J N Goswami said on Monday.
The Rs 400 crore outlay for the Chandrayaan-I, expected to be launched in the next few months, included investment for the dish antenna and other state-of-the art structures,he said
A major part of the equipment in the Chandrayaan-I has been indigenously designed, developed and fabricated, Director of Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmedabad) Prof J N Goswami said on Monday.
Some equipment have been designed and developed by other countries, he told reporters on the sidelines of the five-day workshop on `Exploration of Solar System objects` which he inaugurated at the Pondicherry University.
He expressed hope that the mission would be able to get full pictures of the chemical components of the moon.
It was planned to launch the Chandrayan 2 a few years later, he said.
The workshop, organised by the Department of Earth Sciences in the University, has attracted participation of around 35 young scientists from different institutions in the country.It is aimed at providing an up-to-date information to the participants on various scientific aspects of the planets in the solar system, a release said.
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