Techno World

The reasons for early termination of the Chandrayaan-I mission are now tumbling out, and they reveal that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had kept the Moon orbiter's problems tightly under wraps. Contrary to the space agency's explanation that Chandrayaan's orbit around the Moon had been raised from 100km to 200km in May this year for a better view of the Moon's surface, it is now known that this was because of a miscalculation of the Moon's temperature that had led to faulty thermal protection. It now transpires that heating problems on the craft had begun as early as 25 November 2008, forcing ISRO to deactivate some of the payloads — there were 11 in all, reports The Times Of India.