Bangalore, India: November 27, 2008, IR Summary/TNN -  The spacecraft, Chandrayaan 1, which was reported to have a  rise of temperature by 10% shall not affect the functioning of the spacecraft since it is orbiting around the Moon at 100-km distance, and it is, in fact, due to the rise in the Moon’s temperature that has registered a small rise being summertime on the Moon and not any snag in the spacecraft, hence no cause of worry as per ISRO.

ISRO officials said that the temperature shall be normal by December. The spacecraft having nine payloads is working fine and sending back the data as programmed.
However, owing to the rise in temperature, ISRO will not work on all the payloads at a given time to ensure they are not affected by the heat. That is the only pre-caution necessary at this time.

Meanwhile ISRO's switched on instruments are feeding back data into the data centre at the Deep Space Network at Byalalu. "The data keeps coming in every day. It takes us many weeks to put everything together and analyse the data bit by bit. Scientists will be looking at the pictures to mark out minute differences in each of them. That really takes time. To come to definite conclusions, we have to be sure of the data analysis," an official said.

Two of the high voltage payloads Sara and Hex will be switched on shortly. These payloads are sensitive equipments and need more voltage. By the first week of December, the atmosphere on the Moon is expected to become pleasant and suitable for operation of all instruments.

The world scientits are keeping an eye on Chandrayaan 1 and its function and they also feel, slight rise in temperature was natural toi Moon's risen temperature in summaer time.