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Sunday November 16, 2008

India lands its first lunar probe
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully landed a moon probe on Friday. Chandrayaan-1, (or Lunar Vehicle, in English translation) is India's first lunar spacecraft and represents a milestone for India in the space race.
India's vehicle and launch is entirely indigenous. I have been following, with quite some fascination, the success and challenges that ISRO has faced over the years. It is quite a remarkable organization and being one of the elite few in the space club is undoubtedly a matter of great pride (as it rightfully should be). Subsequent reports have highlighted how well the probes are working, which is indeed very pleasing to read.
My congratulations on the success of the program and best wishes for future offerings. As a passive onlooker from my undergraduate days when I interacted with some members of ISRO who came over to our IIT (Madras or Chennai, these days) to discuss the programs and later on interacting with some on some usages of parallelism, it has been a pleasure to watch their progress and successes.
Posted by tatkar ( Nov 16 2008, 07:07:47 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [1]

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