Findings from Chandrayaan to provide new understanding of lunar surface

Last Updated: Friday, September 18, 2009, 15:46

Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer has gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date.

Chandrayaan-1 was a fantastic success: European scientist

Last Updated: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 14:26

Indian media should stop criticising the ISRO for abruptly terminating Chandrayaan-1, a European space scientist said.

ISRO, NASA experiment to look for ice on moon ended in failure

Last Updated: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 12:47

A NASA scientist has said that his joint experiment with ISRO to look for ice in a permanently shadowed crater near the moon`s North Pole using Chandrayaan-I had failed.

Chandrayaan captures halo around Apollo-15 landing site

Last Updated: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 13:50

India`s maiden moon mission has captured a halo around the site where US spacecraft Apollo-15 had landed on the lunar surface nearly four decades ago.

Chandrayaan enables study interaction without magnetic field

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 21:22

A Chandrayaan-1 Moon mission payload has enabled scientists to study the interaction between the solar wind and a planetary body like Moon without a magnetic field, a meeting convened by ISRO was told.

Space scientists laud India`s moon mission data

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 00:28

Top international space scientists Monday lauded India`s maiden lunar mission for the excellent quality of the data sent by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, a senior space agency official said.

Failure of key unit could have led to Chandrayaan-1 end

Last Updated: Monday, September 7, 2009, 20:11

It was the failure of "heart" of the lunar craft, the bus management unit that performed vital control functions, which probably led to premature end of the country`s ambitious maiden moon mission --Chandrayaan-1.

Heat failed Chandrayaan; review today

Last Updated: Monday, September 7, 2009, 09:06

India’s first Moon mission became casualty of unforeseen high temperatures.

Chandrayaan-I masterminds assemble in Bangalore for review

Last Updated: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 14:34

Key scientists from the country and abroad, who designed the 11 payloads -- scientific instruments -- on board India`s now-defunct Chandrayaan-I moon mission spacecraft, will meet in Bangalore on Monday for a technical

Data from Chandrayaan-1 being used for 2nd moon mission

Last Updated: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 17:51

Further research was being carried out for Chandrayaan-2 proj, based on quality data and photographs taken by Chandrayaan-1, whose mission came to an abrupt end.

Chandrayaan confirms moon was once molten

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 18:05

Chandrayaan`s moon mineralogy mapper has confirmed that the moon was once completely molten.

US scientist`s flip-flop on Chandrayaan

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 15:30

Three days after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) admitted the abrupt end of its Chandrayaan-1 mission, a leading US-based scientist associated with the project Wednesday termed it "a complete success".