Indian Space Research Organisation calls meet to analyse Chandrayaan data

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to report some significant new information about the evolution and composition of the moon when it reveals the first results of the data being sent by Chandrayaan-I at the end of this month.

ISRO has called a meeting of all the scientific teams associated with Chandrayaan, including those from countries which have put their payloads on the Indian mission, on January 29 to assess and review the data being received from the spacecraft.

Project director Mylswamy Annadurai said the command centre in Bangalore had been receiving a wealth of data ever since the spacecraft went into the mission mode last month, a lot of which was of the kind that had never been seen before.

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Amroha girl chose jeans, not burqa, joined Indian Space Research Organisation

Among the scores of families of ISRO scientists who woke up early on Wednesday, prayed and waited for the successful lift-off of Chandrayaan I, was one in Chaugori Mohalla, a tiny, traditional Muslim neighbourhood in UP’s Amroha.

Khushboo Mirza is just one of the 12 engineers of the Check-Out Division of Chandrayaan I which carried out the thermal, vacuum and assembling checks on each component of the satellite. But the story of the 23 year-old is inspiration for a village which once looked at her journey in shock and disbelief.

When her father died when she was seven, her mother, Farhat, broke norms to run the family’s petrol pump to keep her children in school. Her brother, Khushtar, a 2005 BTech from Jamia Millia Islamia, shelved his career ambitions to take charge later. To get out of the claustrophobic by lanes of Amroha, Khushboo applied for B Tech at Aligarh Muslim University. A volleyball player, she qualified through the sports quota. When she graduated, she landed a lucrative job with Adobe but gave it up to join ISRO two years ago.

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