patchfree Mar 25 Aoû 2009 - 11:15
La préparation se poursuit. Ils vont passer à la construction du prototype.
Rappelons que le développement d'une sonde spatiale se déroule en 3 phases (au moins):
- un design préliminaire puis le design détaillé (phase "papier", en fait largement par ordinateur)
- la construction d'un prototype qui est testé
- la construction de la sonde qui volera, avec tests avant intégration à la fusée.
NEW DELHI, August 17 (RIA Novosti) - India and Russia have finished the design of a second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012, the Indian Express newspaper said on Monday.
The paper quoted Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying in Bangalore on Sunday: "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here."
"Next...we will go towards prototype building, which will be taken up next year," Nair said.
Chandrayaan-2 is the second Indian mission to the moon that "would have an orbital flight vehicle constituting an Orbital Craft (OC) and a Lunar Craft (LC) that would carry a soft landing system up to Lunar Transfer Trajectory (LTT)," the Indian space official said.
Russia is responsible for the design and construction of a lander and a rover, which could collect samples of the lunar soil, analyze them and send the data back to Earth.
The ISRO and the Russian Federal Space Agency signed in November 2007 an agreement to work together on the Chandrayaan-2 project.