Chandrayaan Mission Overview
ESA TV News
Chandrayaan will be launched on 22 October by an Indian PSLV rocket.
For India this is the firt mission outside the earth orbit.
Chandrayaan, ""journey to the moon"" in hindi, will orbit the moon at an altitude of only 100 kilometres and will give us a complete view of our natural satellite.
This is an international endeavour in which ESA is contributing with 3 instruments.
This story was filmed in Bangalore where are located most of the satellite activities of the Indian Space Research Organisation and in Sriharikota, the Indian Launch Base.
It is an overview of the mission with interviews of engineers and scientists from India and Europe.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under :http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS59726.pdf
A WMV preview clip in English is online under : http://esa.contentcoders.com/mphi/Chandrayaan_TV_10-10-08_wmphigh.wmv
The same set of files will also be available on the e-vision ftp as of to

Mission Chandrayaan overview
TC 10.00.40
Itís from here, the island of Sriharikota, near Madras, nowadays Chennai, in the Bay of Bengal, that India launches its satellites using its own launchers.
At the vehicle assembly building, the Indian PSLV is almost ready and awaits its passenger for what is an important first for India: a mission to the moon.
Here is Chandrayaan, the Indian lunar craft under preparation in Bangalore. Chandrayaan means ""journey to the moon"" in Hindi.
India has already built and launched many satellites but this is the first time that it will venture beyond earth orbit.
TC 10.01.24
Interview
Dr G. MADHAVAN NAIR
Chairman
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
TC 10.01.43
To ensure a successful lunar mission, India has had to show expertise in various fields.
Indian engineers have put in place everything needed to send a spacecraft around the moon and developped the technology to study the earthís natural satellite.
For India, Chandrayaan represents a scientific and technological chall