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Voyager 2 is already recovered, they waited until it was at the best possible (but still wrong orientation) and just yelled at it so that it heard, even with it being misaligned.
Wow I can't believe I didn't hear about this. It was all over the news when they broke it, so I figured it would be just as widely reported when they fixed it. It's been almost 3 weeks.
Dozens of major private companies focused on making this success making various spare parts including steel cranes by Tata steel, special alloys of Mishra Dhatu Nigam (The Alloy Company), wings by L&T Aero etc. etc. I know some people here and they were so proud and focused on "excellence" which I think is often missing in what we Indians normally do.
Space programs are important because of precision required. It created a discipline and desire for perfection not just for ISRO but for all their suppliers and vendors. Hope this habit spreads.
Congrats to all of the team at ISRO. Assuming the software development for these is non trivial; Its interesting that with the last mission(per Scott Manly) was designed to always select a spot(or more precisely a trajectory) and try hit it. What made them make that decision? Was it like "lets be as precise as we can because we want to get to the spot X because X is special" and thus "Lets let the software always com…
Congratulations India! And everyone. Actually congratulations to all countries still running space programmes including Russia's failure. The more the merrier. This is a stupendously difficult thing to do, India is truly a superpower.
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Congratulations India! And everyone. Actually congratulations to all countries still running space programmes including Russia's failure. The more the merrier. This is a stupendously difficult thing to do, India is truly a superpower.
Here Here. It also ironic that a country and population seen as backwards by the British Empire have overtaken the British in landing on the moon. Would be nice to see the African and South American continent achieve a moon landing as well.
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Really the true wonder! Compare this to the US's SLS plans! The budget is mindboggling.
Yea, back originally when the SLS was on the drawing board to be made it was supposed to be the safest ROI and it hasn’t even been launched successfully yet .
Congratulations, India!
Despite all the sour comments trying to find fault and criticize, this is a remarkable achievement, especially on the heels of the failed Chandrayaan-2 mission. Congrats to the team!!! Just 4 years to recover from the failure and achieve a phenomenal success. India just keeps executing despite what others may say. The team deserves even more praise to be able to achieve these wins with limited resources.
Congratulations India! And everyone. Actually congratulations to all countries still running space programmes including Russia's failure. The more the merrier. This is a stupendously difficult thing to do, India is truly a superpower.
Here Here. It also ironic that a country and population seen as backwards by the British Empire have overtaken the British in landing on the moon. Would be nice to see the African and South American continent achieve a moon landing as well.