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Bangalore, India (PTI) Jul 28, 2010 The mission goal of India's second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, will be clearer next month when a meeting will decide upon the payloads, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) director S.K. Shivakumar, said here on Monday. A meeting here on August 3 would finalise Chandrayaan-2's scientific instruments, which together would weigh between 30 and 35 kg, said Dr. Shivakumar in a lecture on "Chandrayaan-Deep Space Network," organised by the Institute of Engineers. "The payloads are currently going through the process of short-listing," he said. Dr. Shivakumar said the probe would "take forward" some of the accomplishments of Chandrayaan-1, which had famously established the presence of water on the moon. Chandrayaan-2, scheduled for a 2012 launch, would have an Indian-made orbiter and rover (to move on the moon's surface and collect soil samples), and a Russian lander.
Three-dimensional map Retracing the origins of ISRO's ambitious Indian Deep Space Network established in Byalalu (on the outskirts of Bangalore), Dr. Shivakumar said its giant 32-metre antenna had tracked the European Space Agency's missions to Venus and Mars. "All calculations show that the antenna will successfully track India's Mars mission," he added.
Source: Press Trust of India
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