By PTI
DEHRADUN: After missions to the moon and Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has now set its eyes on Venus and likewise plans to discover the darkish facet of the moon in collaboration with Japan.
Making a presentation on ISRO’s future missions on the Akash Tattva convention right here, Anil Bhardwaj, Director of the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory, stated the house company additionally deliberate to ship a probe to Mars.
Bhardwaj stated it was in talks with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for sending a lunar rover to discover the everlasting shadow area of the moon.
As per the preliminary plans, a lunar lander and rover constructed by ISRO can be put into orbit by a Japanese rocket with a deliberate touchdown close to the south pole of the moon.
“The rover will then travel to the permanent shadow region of the moon which never sees sunlight,” Bhardwaj stated.
He stated the exploration of the area was attention-grabbing as something that has remained within the PSR zone was akin to staying in deep freeze for occasions immemorial.
Bhardwaj stated the Aditya L-1 would a novel mission wherein a 400-kg class satellite tv for pc carrying the payload can be positioned in an orbit across the Sun in such a means that it may well repeatedly view the star from some extent referred to as the Lagrange Point L-1.
The orbit can be positioned 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth and it could attempt to perceive the coronal heating, photo voltaic wind acceleration and the initiation of coronal mass ejection, flares and near-earth house climate.
Bhardwaj stated the Aditya L-1 and the Chandrayaan-3 missions can be taken up on precedence as early as subsequent 12 months and had been prone to be adopted by the mission to Venus and the mission to the moon with JAXA.
The success of the lunar rover on board Chandrayaan-3 was essential as it could be used once more within the mission with JAXA.
DEHRADUN: After missions to the moon and Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has now set its eyes on Venus and likewise plans to discover the darkish facet of the moon in collaboration with Japan.
Making a presentation on ISRO’s future missions on the Akash Tattva convention right here, Anil Bhardwaj, Director of the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory, stated the house company additionally deliberate to ship a probe to Mars.
Bhardwaj stated it was in talks with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for sending a lunar rover to discover the everlasting shadow area of the moon.
As per the preliminary plans, a lunar lander and rover constructed by ISRO can be put into orbit by a Japanese rocket with a deliberate touchdown close to the south pole of the moon.
“The rover will then travel to the permanent shadow region of the moon which never sees sunlight,” Bhardwaj stated.
He stated the exploration of the area was attention-grabbing as something that has remained within the PSR zone was akin to staying in deep freeze for occasions immemorial.
Bhardwaj stated the Aditya L-1 would a novel mission wherein a 400-kg class satellite tv for pc carrying the payload can be positioned in an orbit across the Sun in such a means that it may well repeatedly view the star from some extent referred to as the Lagrange Point L-1.
The orbit can be positioned 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth and it could attempt to perceive the coronal heating, photo voltaic wind acceleration and the initiation of coronal mass ejection, flares and near-earth house climate.
Bhardwaj stated the Aditya L-1 and the Chandrayaan-3 missions can be taken up on precedence as early as subsequent 12 months and had been prone to be adopted by the mission to Venus and the mission to the moon with JAXA.
The success of the lunar rover on board Chandrayaan-3 was essential as it could be used once more within the mission with JAXA.
