By NNN-APP
New Delhi : India has planned to launch its maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-I on April nine next year.
Media reports said the mission planned by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Hyderabad.
Quoting Mylswamy Annadurai, Project Director of Chandrayaan-I, the reports said “a launch windows are available for the next two days in case the launch does not happen on that day.”
Before the end of this year, the ISRO will integrate all the 11 instruments, including six from foreign partners on board the mission.
“Two instruments one from the US and another from Bulgaria were integrated last week,” Annadurai said.
The reports further said the two payloads which have been integrated are the moon mineralogy mapper, a joint project of Brown University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (Radom) from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.