India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
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Re: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
#2Here's [1] a data graph of the Doppler curve from Dwingeloo Radio Telescope (based in Netherlands) showing the exact moment the probe crashed into the surface of the moon.
Re: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
#3It seems it was supposed to be a polar landing, which should be harder (I think) than landing from an equatorial arrival
Nonetheless, this is rocket science and failures are very common and not unexpected. Too bad, but it happens.
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#4This should have nothing to do with the unknown gel-like substance found by the Chinese drone:
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614262/china-says-it-foun...
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#5I read that the maximum experiments are in the orbiter so this is a successful mission.
The only thing for which it 'failed' was to let the ruling class do chest thumping by saying 'we are the fourth country to land a rover'. The ruling party had planned a great celebration today for it's 100 days in office, a date coinciding when the rover would land! They wanted to milk it for their nationalistic purposes while their blind followers dance to the tunes and love ISRO's achievements while bashing Nehru who started ISRO (1962).
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#6It remained me this gif https://www.jokejive.com/images/jokejive/4d/4d735fbf33e893db...
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#7It's a good effort by ISRO and it's scientist. Just can't understand why so many countries reinventing the wheels. Space missions should be multi-country efforts continuously as it belongs to all. We should not extend our tribal nationalistic thinking to space.
Best scientist can be in any nation and more diverse the group and experience the better chances of success.
I know I am just dreaming, but hopefully we can come to consensus and try challenges of space as a new frontier as a single human race, originating from Africa.
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#8I read that the maximum experiments are in the orbiter so this is a successful mission. The only thing for which it 'failed' was to let the ruling class do chest thumping by saying 'we are the fourth country to land a rover'. The ruling party had planned a great celebration today for it's 100 days in office, a date coinciding when the rover would land! They wanted to milk it for their nationalistic purposes while the…
Given the successful landing would've been a political bragging point, could contact have been lost deliberately by people with a different political affiliation?
Re: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
#9I read that the maximum experiments are in the orbiter so this is a successful mission. The only thing for which it 'failed' was to let the ruling class do chest thumping by saying 'we are the fourth country to land a rover'. The ruling party had planned a great celebration today for it's 100 days in office, a date coinciding when the rover would land! They wanted to milk it for their nationalistic purposes while the…
The live stream was heavily oriented towards the VIPs in the mission control room. There were interesting things going on but the video kept angling for reaction shots. It was annoying if you came for the space and all you got was the politics.
Re: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
#10It's a good effort by ISRO and it's scientist. Just can't understand why so many countries reinventing the wheels. Space missions should be multi-country efforts continuously as it belongs to all. We should not extend our tribal nationalistic thinking to space. Best scientist can be in any nation and more diverse the group and experience the better chances of success. I know I am just dreaming, but hopefully we can c…
No. We’re different groups of people with different interests, different values, different ideas principles cultures histories views of the world. It’s good for us to be competing to explore space (and in trying to develop technological advantages in general). For countries like India it’s critical to develop their own technologies on this front. Otherwise they’ll remain eternally dependent on America, etc., for access to space.
A “single human race” would be a deeply dysfunctional, unworkable mega-society. Our societies are already too big to be governable. (Ever notice how in Star Trek, aside from token, curated, differences, trillions of people are somehow almost completely culturally homogenous? That’s what makes the federation governable. But it would never work that way in real life. There would be intense conflict. The idea of a society that big being governable is part of the science fiction.)