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Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by whoknowswhat11 »

ape4 wrote: post #124
whoknowswhat11 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?

So many words about "success" - how about some goodies?! (To be clear, I am happy for India, just think it could be presented better)

Right - they had a great camera running - let’s enjoy a few rolling frames of the same spot showing touchdown area and systems working

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by shri_krishna »

throwaway_0823 wrote: post #110
mathieuh wrote: post #77

Wait did it land while they were showing us Modi's face? Why didn't they show the camera feed?

The guy is a megalomanic. The ISRO official who announced the successful landing even asked Modi to "bless us"! No doubt a diktat from Modi.

> The guy is a megalomanic

The Prime Minister is the head of Department of Space, whose primary arm is ISRO. He is the boss. Literally every Prime Minister of India has attended ISRO launches and addressed ISRO after success/failure of launches.

> asked Modi to "bless us"

You probably aren't Indian but this is quite common in India where we seek blessings from elders.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by whoknowswhat11 »

hoseja wrote: post #123
whoknowswhat11 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?

You can see the onboard camera view in the background sometimes. And the only truly hard thing about this is getting the political will for the funding, so.

Is it still updating? Was hard to tell. But just 30 seconds of that would be great

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by hoseja »

whoknowswhat11 wrote: post #144
hoseja wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can see the onboard camera view in the background sometimes. And the only truly hard thing about this is getting the political will for the funding, so.

Is it still updating? Was hard to tell. But just 30 seconds of that would be great

Actually not sure, the last image I caught didn't look particularly "landed".

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by the-dude »

shivdeepak wrote: post #129
the-dude wrote: post #109

I saw the onboard camera show movement after the celebrations started. Did anyone else see this? The onboard has not been shown since.

That's probably because the image data being larger than the on-board sensor data would take longer to reach earth, thus the latency.

Obviously I am not a golfer, but I would have waited until the onboard stabilized, sensors be damned.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by shri_krishna »

factorialboy wrote: post #136
shri_krishna wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why such a long political speech ISRO is primary arm of the Department of Space which is headed by the Prime Minister. So in essence, the Prime Minister is the boss. It is not an independent federal agency like NASA.

If my understanding is correct, did the PM in his speech promise to fund a future mission to Saturn?

I am sorry I did not pay close attention to his speech. But in the subsequent speech, I think the ISRO chief did talk about a Venus Orbiter Mission.
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