The experiment was designed to test the possibility of returning soil samples from the moon in a future lunar mission. The capsule itself was launched into space on January 10
The director of the organization, Madhavan Nair, said that Medov is an important step in India's plan to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2008. The success of the experiment will also pave the way for manned missions in the future. said.
Since launch, the SRE-1 capsule has circled the Earth in a polar circular orbit at an altitude of 637 kilometers. In preparation for re-entry into the atmosphere, the capsule was shifted into an elliptical orbit with its perigee (closest point to Earth) at 485 kilometers and apogee (farthest point) at 639 kilometers by commands from the ISTRAC Space Control Center in Bangalore. The team was assisted by a series of ground stations in Bangalore, Lucknow, Mauritius, Sriharikota, Biak in Indonesia, Skarton in Canada, Soarvald in Norway, as well as mobile stations installed on ships and aircraft.
During the 12-day cycle, two successful experiments were performed on the capsule under zero gravity conditions. One of them is an experiment in the study of metal melting and crystal formation under microgravity conditions. The second experiment sought to investigate the synthesis of nanocrystals under microgravity conditions. This experiment is intended to help designers of biological materials that will be close to the original biological products. The results of the experiments will be analyzed by the principal investigators of each of the experiments in the scientific centers in India responsible for them.
Orderly reentry into the atmosphere and locating and retrieving the spacecraft are essential steps towards any manned space mission. With this success, India joined a limited series of countries that tried this technology: France, Russia, China and Japan. In July 2006, India failed to launch a heavy communications satellite and tested a long-range ballistic missile that could also carry a nuclear warhead.
For information on the website of the Indian Space Research Institute
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I don't believe that India is in space, they have no money at all, only natural resources, I think they have no agency at all, more than half of their country lives in poverty, distress problems and poor infrastructure, old vehicles, low level of sanitation, roads are not paved, children die, people rummage through garbage, and all this and you tell me they sent a capsule desecrate.
The special thing is that India did it and not Russia. This is some kind of step towards future manned flight.
What is so special about this capsule? How is it different from similar capsules with which the Russians, for example, return their cosmonauts to Earth? How is it different and better than the capsule that brought back the astronauts who landed on the moon? What is the technology? what is it about? I would expect some explanation...