Friday, 11 September 2009

ISRO, NASA joint test with Chandrayaan-1 had failed

The premature shut-down of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission on 29 August also brought to a close an interesting joint effort with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) where both agencies were deploying US-provided synthetic aperture radars for bi-static observations aimed at finding water ice at the moon’s poles.

http://www.domain-b.com/aero/space/spacemissions/20090909_isro_nasa.html

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