Indian space ambition accelerating – lunar base with several luinar missions in the next several yaers
Staff Reporter
May 26, 2008

Riding on the recent success of its PSLV-C9 launch, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is now more confident of a lunar base much faster than one can imagine. India is in race with China to capture the Moon and move to Mars and beyond.

ISRO is now looking for external funds to fuel its ambitions. ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said that "some advanced countries were wary of using Indian launch vehicles on the plea that those were of ''dual use'' nature," and "were therefore not willing to provide information regarding payload and other related matters." However, Nair said, the ISRO "was negotiating with various agencies and governments for removal of the restriction." Nair also addressed "preparations of Chandrayan-1, India's first unmanned mission to the Moon," which he said "was well proceeding on schedule and its launch was expected in the third quarter of this year."

The objectives of the Chandrayaan-I mission are to carry out high resolution mapping of topographic features in 3-D and to harness the science payloads, the lunar craft and the launch vehicle with suitable ground support systems.The mission's spacecraft "would not be landing, but will travel in a polar orbit around the moon and pay special attention to gathering data on the polar icecaps that may contain traces of water.

ISRO's plans to launch 70 missions in the 11th Five Year Plan period (2007-12), which would be three times the number it has "done in the past five years.

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