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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 goku12 »

hoseja wrote: post #69
dharmit wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two points I'm aware of: 1. No one has managed to make a landing on the moon's South Pole yet. 2. Since the South Pole doesn't get any sunlight at all, it's believed that there's a possibility of discovering ice/water there.

* bottoms of craters on the South Pole. Some places there get eternal sunlight instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light

Assuming that CY3 landed somewhere it gets eternal sunlight, I can see how this can be an issue. Many landers and rovers have horizontal solar panels - they would work as long as the sun is reasonably above the horizon. However, the sun is always going to be near the horizon at the poles. That would not only require the solar panel to be mounted vertically, but also be oriented towards the sun somehow.

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Post by dizhn »

sidcool wrote: post #134
nullcipher wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

8m

A T20 cricket match has 21 million peak views. So still low I would say.

People watch sports live because spoilers ruin the experience. There isn't much replay value either - except maybe as highlights.

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Post by Symmetry »

Landing on the Moon isn't easy and making it on the second try is pretty good, it took the USSR tons of tries to finally get a good soft landing. And recently we've seen groups from Russia, Japan, and Israel try to land softly on the moon without success.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by Eddygandr »

sva_ wrote: post #201
dotnet00 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately all the national space agencies seem to suffer from this. Both NASA and ESA also seem to think that people are tuning in to watch the smarmy politician talk rather than the robot making its way to space/landing on another body. Had the same issue with JWST for example.

I can imagine that this is a HN-bubble thing. Most people would probably get bored from just seeing some live footage.

SpaceX livestream much more mundane things with tens of thousands of viewers

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by goku12 »

The_Colonel wrote: post #71
thyrox wrote: post #47

Not asking rhetorically but why is this a big deal? Is it because it's going to the south pole? What are some other benefits to be gained from this?

Besides what others said, it gets extra spice from the fact Russia failed to do the same just days ago.

Russian space program is a shadow of what it once was. Their history is full of daring missions and extraordinary achievements. I wish they would engage in a space race than in a war.

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Post by mauryashivam »

throwaway_0823 wrote: post #161
shri_krishna wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> He is the boss. No, he's just an elected representative of the people, a government servant. > You probably aren't an Indian I am an Indian. Modi, desperate to project himself, is overruling the President (who is the supreme commander of the armed forces), gotten himself "coronated" in the new Parliament building, gotten his picture put on every citizen's COVID vaccination certificate (as if he has invented the vac…

He has to put his face on all positive news coming from the country. Anyways happy for ISRO and a step in better understanding Moon (chanda mama).

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Post by rospaya »

mkl wrote: post #57
thyrox wrote: post #47

Not asking rhetorically but why is this a big deal? Is it because it's going to the south pole? What are some other benefits to be gained from this?

It's a big deal because India has never landed on the moon before; only three nations have.

> With this mission, India became the first to impact the Lunar south pole and the 7th nation to reach the lunar surface.

Wiki article for Chandrayaan-1 from 2008.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by ghoomketu »

veave wrote: post #175
thyrox wrote: post #47

Not asking rhetorically but why is this a big deal? Is it because it's going to the south pole? What are some other benefits to be gained from this?

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So if this were another country like Netherlands or Japan, according to you this would be less important? I really don't think so.
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