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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
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Science & Technology Global agencies bid to ride on ISRO's Moon mission Our Bureau
Bangalore , May 10 AS it finalises its Moon mission payloads, ISRO has received 30 experiment proposals of various space and academic agencies from across the globe. The Rs 350-crore `Chandrayaan-1' orbiting mission around Moon is slated for 2007-08. It will take up to 525 kg of experimental gadgets mainly by India. Some 15-20 kg of payload can be offered to a couple of foreign space agencies on a non-commercial basis, said ISRO Chairman, Mr Madhavan Nair. An expert committee will sift through the proposals before finalising one or two of them in the next 3-4 months. The riders would be chosen based on the weight and the power requirement of their experiments. Mr Nair was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the Vigyan Rail exposition here today. Canada was one of the early nations to show its interest in participating in the unmanned Chandrayaan, which will map the lunar landscape. As ISRO closed its offer two-month window in late March, there were proposals from the European Space Agency, US, German DLR and Israel among others. Their scientific data will be shared with ISRO.
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