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Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by narrator »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #21
kens wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a summary of Mars missions and their success/failure: http://mars.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/log/ Lots can go wrong on the Mars side. E.g. Mars Polar Lander - smashed into Mars. Beagle 2 - last heard from just before landing. Mars Climate Orbiter - failed to land because of confusion between pounds and Newtons. Deep Space 2 - no communication after landing. Mars Observer - communication lost 3 days from…

Venus seems to be much more cursed than Mars - at least when it comes to Soviet probes trying to take photos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera#Venera_9_to_12

Venus isn't the nicest play in the galaxy with surface pressure 92x earth and a temperature of 462 C and all.

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by bobosha »

monsterix wrote: post #15
chattoraj wrote: post #14

Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument: The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies. http://www.firstpost.com/india/ten-price-tags-to-put-isro-ma...

Both Bollywood and Mangalyan are a distraction from the core issues, poverty being one of them. Why do people react to criticism that is inevitable for such a mission? In my opinion, space probe to Mars is a good idea for space engineers and for the idea of adventure, it should be nurtured. But the moment the Indian Government a$$holes (who have eaten up more than 10000X that amount which a Mangalyan costs) and their…

Why did Kennedy call for the moon landing instead of fixing the civil rights problem? why did LBJ setup medicare/medicaid instead of fixing racism and other inequities? Why did Obama setup Obamacare without fixing poverty in America?

why oh why?

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by bobosha »

jasonlotito wrote: post #36
joering2 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worth mentioning: if you would have lived in India, hearing the same story about USA NASA Mars rover landing, you would have said: "Why are they spending time on this instead of fixing 14 trillion dollar debt?" Just a matter of point of view.

For those pedantic fools focusing on the "debt" part of your comment, replace that with poverty, NSA spying, unemployment, education, or any other perceived problem. The specific problem isn't the point.

...or health-care, gun violence, crime, housing (lack thereof) etc etc.

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by XorNot »

jlmorton wrote: post #16
monsterix wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Bollywood and Mangalyan are a distraction from the core issues, poverty being one of them. Why do people react to criticism that is inevitable for such a mission? In my opinion, space probe to Mars is a good idea for space engineers and for the idea of adventure, it should be nurtured. But the moment the Indian Government a$$holes (who have eaten up more than 10000X that amount which a Mangalyan costs) and their…

And this is part of working on poverty, in India and everywhere else. Forget all the other reasons. People need inspiration, and this is one way to provide it. The payoff may not be immediate, but it will come.

They also need local jobs in high-tech industries, rather then a continuous brain-drain off to Western nations.

India's poverty also has very little to do with "lack of money" as does poverty everywhere - i.e. why does the US have poverty, despite it's incredible wealth?

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Hate it when capitalistic countries and their residents start pointing out to poverty in India when ever the see a smaller country out doing them in technology. investing in these technologies helps hundreds of engineers and also sows the seed of ambition in millions of others.

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by plaban123 »

imahboob wrote: post #46

Hate it when capitalistic countries and their residents start pointing out to poverty in India when ever the see a smaller country out doing them in technology. investing in these technologies helps hundreds of engineers and also sows the seed of ambition in millions of others.

Boy its not a smaller country. It will explode some day with people.

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by linux_devil »

caycep wrote: post #6

Nice that they are spending Indian taxpayer money on science! (I am biased towards robotic missions vs. getting ppl into orbit at all costs)

I pay tax in India but I am happy for this mission but it causes more pain when my money goes into the pockets of corrupt politicians. It's not the country which is poor, it's the corrupt politicians and bureaucracy. Refer to list of Indian scams : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India , now annual scam every year is worth $20 billion , I wonder why people are not criticizing the administration and corruption but ISRO.

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by swatkat »

swatkat wrote: post #28

Congratulations to ISRO. I was up all night following ISRO's updates :) Mission homepage: http://www.isro.org/mars/home.aspx Here are some pics from ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network) that was looking over the Trans Mars Injection, and the spacecraft itself: http://www.isro.org/mars/momimg.aspx Here's a color picture of Earth captured by MOM last week: http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c25/Imagegallery/m…

NASA Eyes on the Solar System is tracking ISRO MOM as well: http://eyes.nasa.gov/

NASA Eyes gets spacecraft trajectories from their DSNs.

Here's a screenshot showing NASA MAVEN and ISRO MOM: http://i.imgur.com/7l56d7N.jpg

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by salient »

monsterix wrote: post #15
chattoraj wrote: post #14

Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument: The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies. http://www.firstpost.com/india/ten-price-tags-to-put-isro-ma...

Both Bollywood and Mangalyan are a distraction from the core issues, poverty being one of them. Why do people react to criticism that is inevitable for such a mission? In my opinion, space probe to Mars is a good idea for space engineers and for the idea of adventure, it should be nurtured. But the moment the Indian Government a$$holes (who have eaten up more than 10000X that amount which a Mangalyan costs) and their…

Technology is much faster at getting people out of poverty than giving them free money or free food. Heck, as someone from outside, the only thing about Indian industries is that "Indians are good at tech". If I were you, I'd try to focus even more on that, not less.
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