Nellol: ISRO and Japan Space Agency Jaxa jointly held the third face-to-face technical interface meeting at the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore from May 13 to 14 to go to the Chandrayaan-5/Lupex Mission.
Senior officials, project directors and technical team members from ISRO, JAXA and Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries attended the meeting.
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This is to study lunar volatile materials near permanently shadowed areas of the Moon Antarctic, including lunar water. The mission will be launched by Jaxa on its H3-24L launcher and comes with ISRO-made Lunar Lander, which will carry the Japanese-made Lunar Rover.
In addition to developing Lunar Lander, ISRO is also responsible for developing some scientific tools for this task. These will be contributed by ISRO, JAXA, ESA and NASA, all topics are related to the exploration and in situ analysis of volatiles retained in the lunar region.
On March 10, the government’s Chandrayaan-5/Lupex mission was approved in the form of financial sanctions.
The two-day face-to-face meeting considered various technical interfaces, joint mission implementation plans, and potential landing sites for the mission.
The Chandrayaan-5/lupex mission will be one of the major short-term milestones for Lunar Exploration Odyssey in India, an exploration designed to envision the Indian Gaganyatris (astronauts) that will land between 2040 and 2040.
During the meeting, ISRO’s science secretary M Ganesh Pillai congratulated the technical achievements of both teams and emphasized the importance of collaborative efforts to the scientific and technical aspects of the mission.
Tirtha Pratim Das, Director of the ISRO Office of Science Programs, explained the key milestones achieved relative to landing site selection, payload optimization, mission design, and ground market segments and communications.
