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Title: Russian Phobos-Grunt Failure to Delay Chandrayaan-2
Post by: sanman on 02/12/2012 07:15 pm

Russian sources say that the failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission will impact the Chandrayaan-2 mission, delaying it by 3 years:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2854134.ece

This is because technologies and systems used in Phobos-Grunt are also present in the Russian lander which is to be used for the Chandrayaan-2 mission, and these will have to be subjected to review.

The Chandrayaan-2 mission was originally scheduled for launch in 2013, but was facing delays due to the 2 consecutive failures of the GSLV. The mission is now expected to be delayed until 2016, due to the failure of Phobos-Grunt.

Here's an image of the prototype Chandrayaan-2 lunar rover being developed at IIT-Kanpur:

http://lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/2010/08/chandrayaan-2-rover-prototype.html

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_YoCIFkM3GQ8/TGB4bKspdkI/AAAAAAAAJOs/hYDvWKtXSUE/s800/parallel-spirals-ch2-201008-400x300.jpg)

Title: Re: Russian Phobos-Grunt Failure to Delay Chandrayaan-2
Post by: Jason1701 on 02/13/2012 04:22 am

On the positive side, this gives teams more time to win the GLXP.