Friday, July 17, 2009

India's moon mission runs into trouble...

India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-I, launched in October last with a two-year life span, has lost a major sensor and may meet a premature end, ISRO said on Friday.

"Unfortunately, during the last month we have lost a vital sensor รข€” the star sensor," ISRO Chief G Madhavan Nair said. 

"Like in the olden days when one used to look at the stars to fix a direction, likewise an onboard electronic equipment was doing all this and it was required for precise pointing (towards the moon). With its loss we are really worried," he said. More...

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