Meanwhile, as we speak, India’s chandrayaan-3 spacecraft are orbiting the Earth at high speeds.
The craft is on its 40-day Journey To The moon, but it’s not just the Indian space agency ISRO that is tracking and communicating with the craft.
Several foreign space agencies are also doing the same in this report. Our senior correspondent, Siddharth MP, explains the tracking procedure. Take a look.
All major space agencies worldwide operate such giant antennas, but what are they meant to do? These are the antennas that help the space agencies keep track of rocket launches and communicate with their satellites via radio signals, from sending and receiving data to issuing commands.
This is the only means of reaching out to crafts that are hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away from the Earth.
The bigger the antenna, the greater and farther its reach, but the antennas have one limitation: however big they are or however big they get, they can only see objects that are within their range.
If a spacecraft is not within the coverage area of an antenna, then it is not visible to it to execute deep space missions that travel far away from the Earth to the Moon.
Mars and other planets Multiple tracking stations are necessary under East Trunk or ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network India operates multiple tracking stations within the country’s territory and in friendly foreign nations.
The talking stations within India are spread across Bengaluru, like now in Sriharikota.Port Blair and Thiru Vananta Pura, the foreign stations are based in Mauritius, Brunei, and Biak. W
ith such coverage, the Indian space agency is able to track the routine rocket launches that are carried out from India’s Spaceport in Sriharikota.
However, for lunar missions such as the Chandrayan, Israel requires support fromTrucking stations across the globe and operating multiple tracking stations all over the world is extremely expensive and unviable, therefore space agencies work with each other when the need arises.
Various tracking stations belonging to NASA and the European Space Agency are tracking Chandrayaan-3 from various locations around the world, including Goldstone in California and Coru in South America.
Madrid, Spain Haley in the United Kingdom and Kanbura in Australia, the constant striking from Indian and foreign stations ensures that India’s Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft is visible to one or even more stations at a time and can be monitored and safely steered towards the Moon.
The international tracking support being provided by Foreign space agencies like NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Australian Space Agency for India’s Chandrayam 3 and deep space missions is a symbol of international cooperation and goodwill in space.
This goes on to show that space-faring activities and space exploration are not solitary activities even within India; it takes thousands of scientists from across domains to execute a mission.
For deep space missions, it’s required to cooperate with several international space agencies to ensure that this mission is going on successfully with video journalists. Chandra Shekhar from Sriharikota Siddharth MP: We in the world are one foreign.
