भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is India's national space agency, responsible for space-based operations, exploration, and the development of related technologies. As a key part of the Department of Space, ISRO designs and develops launch vehicles and satellites, including the INSAT series for communication and the IRS system for remote sensing. ISRO operates launch facilities like the Satish Dhawan Space Centre and collaborates with international partners such as NASA and CNES. ISRO's work enables services like telecommunications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, resource monitoring, and navigation. Key words: space agency, satellites, launch vehicles, exploration, remote sensing, communication.
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An August 2023 ISRO blog post mentioned the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter maneuvering to avoid close approaches to South Korea’s KPLO.
NASA’s MADCAP software is being used by NASA, ISRO, and KARI to predict and alert operators of potential close approaches between lunar orbiters.
ISRO commanded the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter in October 2021 to slightly change its orbit to avoid a three-kilometer close approach to NASA’s LRO.
ISRO optimized Chandrayaan 3’s Pragyan rover traverse path heavily for engineering safety rather than scientific return.
Scientists analyzing elemental composition measured by ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3 rover concluded that excess sulfur in the landing site’s soil and rocks likely originated in the Moon’s mantle.
ISRO has continued investments this year to optimize the performance and production of parts of its family of rockets.
An ISRO-provided thermal probe on the LUPEX rover will help quantify water ice within soil samples.
The LUPEX rover will carry instruments from Japan and India and contributions from NASA, ESA, and ISRO.
ISRO has been considering adding a radioisotope heater unit to the Chandrayaan 5 lander but has not confirmed that addition.
ISRO is providing a ground-penetrating radar on LUPEX capable of probing up to 3 meters depth to map polar subsurface structure and water ice locations.
Chandrayaan 5 is a joint ISRO–JAXA mission to study water ice at the Moon’s south pole.
ChaSTE data and associated model codes are publicly available on ISRO’s ISSDC portal and PRL’s website.
ISRO is aiding NASA with lunar polar resource prospecting and hazard classification of landing sites for crewed Artemis missions.
ISRO is building the Chandrayaan 5 lander with input from Chandrayaan 3’s success and JAXA’s SLIM lander precision-landing experience.
The Chandrayaan 5 lander is an ISRO-developed vehicle with an approximate mass of 6,000 kilograms.
ISRO has not finalized or announced the instrument suite for the Chandrayaan 5 lander.
ChaSTE data are publicly available on ISRO’s ISRO Science Data Archive (ISSDC) portal.
The joint ISRO–JAXA Chandrayaan 5/LUPEX rover mission is considering landing sites around 89°S to directly study the nature, accessibility, and abundance of lunar water ice.
Building and operating the rover for the ISRO-JAXA LUPEX mission will contribute directly to the development of Japan's pressurized rover for Artemis.
Multiple ISRO sources and a public talk by a program lead at ISRO’s spacecraft communications arm ISTRAC indicate that Intuitive Machines commercially used ISRO’s ground tracking support for IM-1.