The launch of chandrayan has been successful. Now in a space of 15 days if everything goes well than India will join the select band of G 6 countries to send spacecrafts to the moon.
A perfect launch from Sriharikota, 44 metre tall, 346 tonnes PSLV had a copy book style take off. Despite heavy rain in around chennai coast the launch took off just as planned. Around Nov 8 the LAM ( Liquid apogee motor) will be fired.
Chandrayan will orbit the moon for 2 years, if the energy permits it will be more. There are 11 experimental payloads 5 from Indian 6 from European union including US.
Moon this time around take prime attention, apart from kadva chauth, due to the presence of HELIUM 3. It is reliably learnt from a friend of mine in ISRO a five kg Helium can light up entire Bangalore city for 3 years, which is exciting prospect. The Helium 3 deposits on the surface of the moon is 20 times more than the fossil fuel in the Earth. This makes it a huge commercial proposition. It calls for the special collaborative effort.
The scientists are ga ga over this super achievement. My friend called me @ 7 am itself conveying the good news. A project in the making for more than a decade. I am sure the satellite launch monitoring centre in Bangalore, don t ask me where exactly it is located. It is top secret and is an heavily guarded secret. The radar is continously circumbulating. I think I have posted the picture earlier on my photo upload.
India's Leap to the Moon is a historic mission. An expense of 400 crores is nothing compared to the future potential energy source from the moon. May be a cauldrom will be developed to suck Helium into earths atmosphere. It provides us an exciting opportunity to imagine an energy station in the space which will beam Helium 3 power supplies to the mother earth.
Congrats Santosh and his ISRO colleagues for this historic achievement. Some scientists are crazy guys as they say. Such eccentricity produces abudant electricity. Lol
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