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I’m doing some reading in Indian history as part of my research for the sequel to In the Shadow of Ares. In John Keay’s India: A History, I came across this interesting passage in his discussion of the ‘epic age’ of the Mahabharata and Ramayana: As for the retreat into exile, the other central theme […] Looks like India’s Chandrayaan I lunar probe has died, after a pretty good run. India’s space agency ended an $82 million mission to map the surface of the moon after failing to restore contact with its unmanned Chandrayaan I craft. Contact was lost with the probe two days ago and scientists at the Indian Space […] Well, that was fast — apparently I didn’t pay close enough to the schedule, as I thought this was going to happen sometime next month – Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe Lands on Moon: Developed by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapuram, the primary objective of MIP is to demonstrate the technologies required for landing a […] India’s national space program has launched it’s Chandrayaan-1 probe to the Moon, carrying instruments to map the elemental composition of the lunar surface, search for He-3, and map the terrain, along with a camera-carrying penetrator probe which will among other things analyze the lunar atmosphere on the way down. (You knew the Moon had an […] |
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