Click to play videoBangalore: India's first mission to the moon, Chandrayan is likely to be launched from Sriharikota in the 3rd week of October.
The unmanned mission will be launched by ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV. It will carry out a total of 11 experiments over a span of 2 years.
The mission would explore the relatively unknown darker side of the moon and look into the possibilty of finding water on the moon with the help of pictures taken from high resolution cameras.
The data will be received by the deep space network at Bylalu near Bangalore. The US and Russia are helping track India's moon mission.
M.G.K. Menon, another leading scientist and a former ISRO chief, said that deep space tracking network is expensive but once India builds the required infrastructure for it, “we can use it repeatedly and reap the benefit”.
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