Photo: Doordarshan
NEW DELHI: Oct 22 – India launched its first unmanned moon mission on Wednesday (Oct. 22, 2008) successfully. Doordarshan (Government owned Television) showed the historical event, reports Reuters.
Chandrayaan-1 (Moon vehicle), a cuboid spacecraft built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) blasted off from a southern Indian space centre shortly after dawn, the Reuters report said.
AFP adds: The unmanned lunar orbiting spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 was launched with an Indian-built rocket at 6:22 am (0052 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Chennai.
The Chandrayaan-1 is being sent on a two-year orbital mission to provide a detailed map of the mineral, chemical and topographical characteristics of the moon’s surface, at a cost of 80 million dollars.
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