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what is Chandrayaan project?

Chandrayaan-1 is a remote sensing mission pro-posed to be launched from the Satish Dhawan Launch Station at Sriharikota in 2007 by the Indian Space Research Organization using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. It will be injected into 240×36,000 km Elliptic Transfer Orbit (ETO) around the Earth and will be inserted in a circum- lunar orbit (LOI) via Lunar Transfer Trajectory(LTT).

The primary objectives of the Chandrayaan-1 mission are simultaneous chemical, mineralogical and topographic mapping of the lunar surface at high spatial resolution. These data should enable us to understand compositional variation of major elements, which in turn, should lead to a better understanding of the stratigraphic relationships between various litho units occurring on the lunar
surface.


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