India’s space agency has been revamping rapidly since long and we can’t deny this. The very recent mass satellite launch was one big news and now the space agency is striving to start its first moon mission. Three teams of India have been selected for the country’s secret and private moon mission. The mission will have 7 teams in total, out of which 3 are from India. This will start from December and the space technology mission is named as TeamIndus.
A TeamIndus statement says, “Teams Callisto, Ears and Kalpana from India, Space4Life from Italy, Lunadome from Britain, Killa Lab from Peru and Regolith revolution from the US have qualified to fly their experiments to the lunar surface in our spacecraft”.
The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch TeamIndus spacecraft on PSLV.
An official statement throws light to it by saying, “Space4Life from Naples in Italy will send an experiment to the lunar surface under the Lab2Moon Challenge to test the effectiveness of using a colony of cyanobacteria as a shield against harmful radiation in space”.
Their theory is revolving around cyanobacteria, which is a micro-organism is responsible for producing oxygen with the help of sunlight. These are the life-forming bacteria on earth.
With the similar experiment, they are striving to explore life on the moon.
Their statement says, “Team Space4Life will work with TeamIndus engineers to make the experiment space worthy for the journey of a lifetime”.
The former ISRO Chairman K. Kasturirangan, Alain Bensoussan and Yale University Astronomy Professor Priyamvada Nataranjan looked into the experiment prototypes in grave detail.
Kasturirangan said, “Congratulations to Space4Life. The data from its experiment have the potential to dramatically impact mankind”.
Starting from December, the spacecraft will be injected in the orbit 880km x 70,000km around the earth. The spacecraft will undertake a 21 days journey in the orbit.
After few moments of landing, the spacecraft will deploy the TeamIndus rover to make it traverse 500 meters on moon’s surface.
