Chandrayaan1.com India's spacecraft to map the moon
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Chandrayaan-1, India's lunar space craft
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- The Chandrayaan-1 mission is India's first lunar spacecraft, announced by Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayeeon on Indian Independence Day, August 15, 2003. The launch date of the moon probe is expected to be in 2007 or 2008. Scientific payload: approx. 55 kg, out of 523 kg spacecraft in 100 x 100 km lunar orbit. For submission of proposals, the official deadline was March 15, 2004. Complete funding seems assured.
