The survey spacecraft of India’s mission to the moon, Chandaryaan 1 has developed a navigational problem.
Chandrayaan’s star sensor has failed, creating doubts on whether it will continue to work for the next two years.
“Star sensors are malfunctioning,’’ S Satish, spokesperson of the Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told agencies.
Star sensors played the crucial role of orientation towards the Moon.
ISRO said it has devised innovative technology and is using antenna pointing mechanism and gyroscopes to overcome the problem. But the space agency is not confident on how long they can hold to this mode.
“We are not sure how long we will be able to sustain it. The life of Chandrayaan-I designed for two years may be reduced,” spsaid.
He, however, maintained that the mission is not crippled adding, “it is continuing satisfactorily.” (Agency)
- By KOL News , Written on July 17, 2009
Already a chinese web site informed of this jeoparady, but Nair group declined, but Chinese web site brought the truth in advance. This makes unknown chines website more reliable than our own ISRO spokesman. Longlive ISRO with this sort of attitueds. let them use the tax paid by the common man and give wrong info. to them. What we want is tranparency.