What would happen if they found water?
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Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?
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.
On the other hand, political speeches on such occasions go down as most remembered historically. The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." was obviously said by some politician! (or at least with non-technical motives)
Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
#243What makes this a "WoWW!", is not that this is the first time humans sent something to the moon, but when one factors in the budget relative to others.
Although, I do not have reference for what the exact budget was/is.
Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
If anything they seem to have overcorrected for this. This landing path stopped with a near hover at around 800m, then a prolonged hover at 150m while the lander scoped the situation, then an extremely slow descent that allowed for corrections the whole way down. Very impressive.
Also incredibly inefficient.
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#245I was trying to find the schedule for the rover including on ISRO's website[1], but the closest I could find was this[2] and this[3] that suggest the rover will be rolled out in the next few hours or may be tomorrow and it has a life expectancy of one lunar day(14 earth days). Anyone knows if it will be streamed as well?
[1] https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3.html
[2] https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/chandrayaan-3-miss...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/23/science/india-moon-l...
Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
#246The moment of landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dim8elzo5vE
When I look at this, it seems it's a long-range optical feed of the moon surface with lander graphics laid over it. Has anyone found footage of the actual craft touching down? It would be amazing to see.
Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
#247Earlier 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.
On the other hand, political speeches on such occasions go down as most remembered historically. The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." was obviously said by some politician! (or at least with non-technical motives)
Also, "we're going to the moon not because it's easy, but because it's hard"
Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
#248The moment of landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dim8elzo5vE When I look at this, it seems it's a long-range optical feed of the moon surface with lander graphics laid over it. Has anyone found footage of the actual craft touching down? It would be amazing to see.
On the dark side of the moon?
Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
#249The moment of landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dim8elzo5vE When I look at this, it seems it's a long-range optical feed of the moon surface with lander graphics laid over it. Has anyone found footage of the actual craft touching down? It would be amazing to see.
Hopefully they can leave behind a camera to film the next arrivals.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
If my understanding is correct, did the PM in his speech promise to fund a future mission to Saturn?
IIRC, he mentioned missions to the Sun, Venus and a manned space mission.
I really wish to see a lander mission to Venus. Doesn't look like anybody other than Russia has done it - that too nearly 40 years ago. The environment is so extreme that the technology - especially electronics - would have to be radically different. The data is also likely to be extremely interesting.