Amazing morning it was. My bro calls at 630am to connect to Doordarshan 1, our National Television channel for a live broadcast of India’s first moon mission Chandrayaan I from the Sriharikota, INDIA . After USA , Russia, Japan, China and now its the turn of India! We are reaching there with our own big bang. The technology used for the mission is completely indigenous. I have always known the PSLV lauch vehicle used in the project. It was first launched in 1993 with a payload. Later it also started servicing other countries with their payloads. The Chandrayaan project asked much more perfection and as was delivered.  We will all be excited and watching the next 15 days of our journey to the moon. Planned for a month orbit aound the moon. Equipped with hitech infra, X-Ray and topography sensors to map the entire of the moon (i have no clue of whatever that is :p).  Also to be noted, PSLV also carries 6 payloads from NASA and ESA and this time for free. And even better, a Moon Impact Probe will carry another set of sensors along with our National Flag. We will become the fourth country after USA, Russia and Japan to place a flag on the Moon. Check out the the links and keep reading on. Congratulations India!

November 18, 2008: Chandrayan 1 had sent the Moon Impact Probe a few days back and now is busy orbiting the scanning the moon terrian 24 hours of the earth day. As per the today’s morning news, the second unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan 2 has been approved by the Government just yesterday. So we now know, the fun will grow lot more.! There is very little official ISRO matter about the next moon rover mission at this point.