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Title: INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016
Post by: Shams on 02/13/2011 02:10 am

ISRO announces new moon mission

As per the cooperation agreement, ISRO will send a satellite to orbit around the moon to transmit data to earth from rover JPL plans to send to the lunar surface.

As part of the project, JPL plans to drop a robotic lander into a basin at the moon's south pole to return lunar rocks back to Earth for study.

Read more.....

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/isro-announces-new-moon-mission/190825

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_isro-announces-new-moon-mission-with-us-jet-propulsion-lab_1506970

Title: Re: INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016
Post by: pradeep on 02/14/2011 04:47 pm

Specifically, ISRO was requested to collaborate with JPL in the MoonRise mission. The mission is currently in its phase A study under the New Frontiers Programme. It already has collaborations from Canada, Germany and Japan and hence I think hardly just a Indo-US Moon mission.

More about MoonRise here - http://moonrise.jpl.nasa.gov/

Title: Re: INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016
Post by: Danderman on 03/03/2011 01:30 am

It sounds like ISRO is volunteering to "sell" a lunar orbiter to NASA as part of the JPL bid for New Frontiers. If ISRO were going to pay for the orbiter itself, then this would not be a New Frontiers bid, this would be an international mission with a flight opportunity for a US experiment.

Title: Re: INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016
Post by: pradeep on 03/14/2011 08:38 am

In response to a Parliamentary question, it was revealed - http://isro.gov.in/parliament/2011/Budget/LUSQ2131.pdf - that subject to the approval of the MoonRise mission, ISRO is considering providing an orbiter spacecraft. ISRO's proposed orbiter would cost Rs. 150 crore ($33.25 million) which includes operations.

Pradeep

Title: Re: INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016
Post by: Shams on 03/14/2011 12:14 pm

Quote from: pradeep on 03/14/2011 08:38 am

In response to a Parliamentary question, it was revealed - http://isro.gov.in/parliament/2011/Budget/LUSQ2131.pdf - that subject to the approval of the MoonRise mission, ISRO is considering providing an orbiter spacecraft. ISRO's proposed orbiter would cost Rs. 150 crore ($33.25 million) which includes operations.

Pradeep

Thanks for your report

Title: Re: INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016
Post by: simonbp on 03/14/2011 08:57 pm

And just to be clear, MoonRise is one of three New Frontiers missions currently being studied, with the others being OSIRIS-REX (to do sample return from a NEO) and SAGE (to land on Venus). SAGE is seen as the least likely, as this is the first time such a mission has been proposed, with MoonRise and OSIRIS about equal chance. Having a strong international component (something that IIRC, OSIRS lacks) may help to push MoonRise ahead...