INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016

• INDO-US moon mission slated for 2016 by Shams on 13 Feb, 2011 02:10
• 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
  
  
• #1 by pradeep on 14 Feb, 2011 16:47
• 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/
• #2 by Danderman on 03 Mar, 2011 01:30
• 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.
  
• #3 by pradeep on 14 Mar, 2011 08:38
• 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
• #4 by Shams on 14 Mar, 2011 12:14
• Quote from: pradeep on 14 Mar, 2011 08:38

  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
• #5 by simonbp on 14 Mar, 2011 20:57
• 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...