Forget sky, now space is the limit! (IIPM Publication)

As if the Indo-US nuclear deal wasn’t enough, the two nations have signed an MoU to fly two American lunar mapping instruments. The lunar orbiter, Chandrayan-1, would be launched around the end of 2007 or early 2008. It will carry NASA’s Mini-SAR, for detecting the water deposits in the lunar polar regions, and M3 for assessing mineral resources on moon. The deal was signed between NASA Administrator Michael Griffin – the first NASA Chief to visit India in past thirty years – and the Chairman of ISRO, G. Madhavan Nair. The deal has brought India directly in competition with the neighbouring country China, which also plans to send its own lunar orbiter.

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