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Claiming property of whatever they find up there?
India has both signed and ratified the Outer Space Treaty, that prohibits countries from making territorial claims on celestial bodies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
"We shall send a mouse to space. If it comes back alive, it will mean that Uganda is able to send human beings into space and we shall embark on constructing a new space observer that a person can use"
I'm a little skeptical here. It's easy to announce a Mars mission, it's a little harder to actually achieve the goal. For a country that has not yet achieved manned spaceflight at all Mars seems to be picked for publicity reasons more than practical reasons. It's good motivational stuff but that usually backfires when the goal is eventually not achieved. I hope they will do this, I believe they will not, and the date…
Did you read the article? This is an unmanned Mars mission. I believe India is more than capable of pulling of Mars orbiter mission.
To announce a mission of this magnitude when they already have a manned space program announced (with the budget to go along with it) would seem to me to dilute the funds to the point that both will likely end up aborted.
Maybe they should first complete the stuff they've already announced and then move on to the next target? As it is India's space program is not exactly on schedule adding more projects will likely reduce the chances of existing projects running to completion.
I'm a little skeptical here. It's easy to announce a Mars mission, it's a little harder to actually achieve the goal. For a country that has not yet achieved manned spaceflight at all Mars seems to be picked for publicity reasons more than practical reasons. It's good motivational stuff but that usually backfires when the goal is eventually not achieved. I hope they will do this, I believe they will not, and the date…
see, the point is why send humans for missions that robots can do, what is the point of sending humans+oxygen+supplies for them, when you can have a lifeless machine perform whatever you need. See this is one of the reasons, manned missions are only being done by those approaching space for colonization. India's objective is not that.
India has a stated intention to put humans in space and is actively working towards that. Adding yet another arrow to the quiver with such an ambitious goal already underway feels as though it might end up risking both projects.
For all those curious in this thread. And For those wondering what benefit this can possibly serve. There is no cold war like situation here in India. Also US and Russia have already been there. There is also a huge problem of poverty, corruption and every other social evil known to man exists in India. So why go to mars? For a country of India's size, you will never ever go to space if you wait till all other proble…
Wait, 454 crore is 83 million dollars? That _is_ amazing! That's like 8 pebble watch projects on Kickstarter. "An engineer is someone who can do for $1 what any damn fool can do for $2". India has a ton of great scientists and engineers, and I agree this is a mission the nation should be proud of.
Pretty old news for me, I first heard of it (and I reckon ISRO doesn't make announcements if its not already sure) after the chandrayaan mission a year or so ago. But what is funny is the view of people towards ISRO's space missions. See a lot of trolls would start talking about poverty, malnutrition, etc etc in India, whenever such news is announced. The two point they don't see is: 1. Technology is not a object tha…
Pretty old news for me, I first heard of it (and I reckon ISRO doesn't make announcements if its not already sure) after the chandrayaan mission a year or so ago. But what is funny is the view of people towards ISRO's space missions. See a lot of trolls would start talking about poverty, malnutrition, etc etc in India, whenever such news is announced. The two point they don't see is: 1. Technology is not a object tha…
Estonia is a European, not African, country.
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Yeah. The US sorted out all THEIR problems, like poverty and civil rights before they started building all those spaceshi...uhmm, wait...
The US was far richer than India is now when the space program began.
Actually spending to be a front runner in tech like this is not an expenditure, It's a well thought investment. Which i am sure will prove to be a good one, with long term returns.
Is there any point in countries doing that alone, rather than global cooperation?
Who said, ISRO's missions are completely cut off from the world, if you search a little, there is a lot more of cooperation in space fields today, than any other field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1#Payload
It contained significant instruments from NASA and ESA. The instrument that discovered polar water was M3:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/details.php?id=5923
I believe it was given a free ride by ISRO, but the instrument itself was paid for by NASA.