India has not only sent its first lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 into space Wednesday to join a select group of six, many of the scientific instruments aboard the spacecraft are of Indian make too.
Chandrayaan-1 is carrying 11 scientific instruments, called payloads. They include five entirely designed and developed in India, three instruments from European Space Agency (one developed jointly with India and another with Indian contribution), one from Bulgaria and two from the US.
Image: In this file photo taken on September 18, 2008, the Satellite Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India`s first moon mission craft is seen from behind glass at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) center in Bangalore. India began counting down on October 20, 2008 to the launch of its first unmanned mission to the moon that will mark a giant catch-up step with Japan and China in the fast-developing Asian space race.
Text: IANS
Images: AFP, ISRO
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