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Update: Chandrayaan-1: too hot to handle?

September 9th, 2009 by

ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair confirmed that the premature failure of India’s Chandrayaan-1 moon probe was not caused by heat alone (as prematurely assumed in some reports) but by a combination of factors.
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