ISRO’s ‘lost’ Chandrayaan-1 spotted orbiting the moon

[rahul1117kumar]

India’s first lunar mission — the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which was generally considered lost — is still orbiting the Moon, NASA scientists have found with new technological application of interplanetary radar. Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, barely a year after it was launched on October 22, 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 is still circling some 200 kilometers above the lunar surface, the scientists determined. In addition to finding Chandrayaan-1, the scientists also located NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter around the Moon.

“We have been able to detect NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in lunar orbit with ground-based radar,” said Marina Brozovic, a radar scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and principal investigator for the test project.

ISRO’s ‘lost’ Chandrayaan-1 spotted orbiting the moon

 

[Sarkar]

It's sad we lost contact otherwise it would be great to hv for research purposes

 

[shawl_who]

:lol, its still going round n rounds, but we have ignored it !! :shy

 

[Sarkar]

Radar imagery acquired of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft as it flew over the moon's south pole on July 3, 2016. The imagery was acquired using NASA's 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California. This is one of four detections of Chandrayaan-1 from that day. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This computer-generated image depicts the Chandrayaan-1's location at time it was detected by the Goldstone Solar System radar on July 2, 2016. The 120-mile (200-kilometer) wide purple circle represents the width of the Goldstone radar beam at lunar distance. The white box in the upper-right corner of the animation depicts the strength of echo. Inside the radar beam (purple circle), the echo from the spacecraft alternated between being very strong and very weak, as the radar beam scattered from the flat metal surfaces. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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