India Plans Historic Launch of a Rocket to the Moon (techcrunch.com) 89
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch a rocket to the moon. UPDATE: 2:28: The launch "has been called off for today," the ISRO posted on Twitter.
But when the re-scheduled launch happens, you can watch it live on two YouTube channels, on Twitter, Facebook, or webcast on the ISRO's web site.
TechCrunch has also embedded a livestreaming video in their report: Chandrayaan-2 will carry lunar lander Vikram, which will deliver ISRO rover Pragyan to the surface at the pole, with a target landing zone of a plain that covers the ground between two of the Moon's craters, Simpelius N and Manzinus C. The rocket used for the launch is the GSLV Mk-III, India's most powerful launch vehicle ever, and the orbiter used for this mission will relay back information from the lander and rover to Earth via the Indian Deep Space Network, as well as make its own observations during its planned one-year mission lifespan.
The mission will seek to take a number of measurements of the lunar surface, including topographic, mineral makeup, seismographic, chemical analytics and more, with an eye to shedding more light on the Moon's origins. If all goes to plan, the lunar orbiter will make its way to to Moon over the next couple of months and aim to soft land the Vikram at the South Pole target site on September 6, 2019.
This is a historic mission for a few reasons, including being the first ever soft-landing attempt at the Moon's South Pole region, as well as being the first Indian mission to attempt a soft landing using all home-grown lander and rover technology. If successful, India will be only the fourth country ever to have soft-landed a vehicle on the lunar surface.
But when the re-scheduled launch happens, you can watch it live on two YouTube channels, on Twitter, Facebook, or webcast on the ISRO's web site.
TechCrunch has also embedded a livestreaming video in their report: Chandrayaan-2 will carry lunar lander Vikram, which will deliver ISRO rover Pragyan to the surface at the pole, with a target landing zone of a plain that covers the ground between two of the Moon's craters, Simpelius N and Manzinus C. The rocket used for the launch is the GSLV Mk-III, India's most powerful launch vehicle ever, and the orbiter used for this mission will relay back information from the lander and rover to Earth via the Indian Deep Space Network, as well as make its own observations during its planned one-year mission lifespan.
The mission will seek to take a number of measurements of the lunar surface, including topographic, mineral makeup, seismographic, chemical analytics and more, with an eye to shedding more light on the Moon's origins. If all goes to plan, the lunar orbiter will make its way to to Moon over the next couple of months and aim to soft land the Vikram at the South Pole target site on September 6, 2019.
This is a historic mission for a few reasons, including being the first ever soft-landing attempt at the Moon's South Pole region, as well as being the first Indian mission to attempt a soft landing using all home-grown lander and rover technology. If successful, India will be only the fourth country ever to have soft-landed a vehicle on the lunar surface.
Re:Working toilets for all first. Then explore spa (Score:5, Insightful)
I just knew some douchebag would post something like this. Somehow I"m not happy to be right.
I'm fairly certain if you look in the right places you can find people shitting in the streets in New York and Los Angeles too.
We hadn't cured poverty in 1961 when Kennedy challenged us to go to the moon.
And we still haven't cured it 58 years later. Do you think we ever will?
Is having a toilet on every street corner a prerequisite for going to the moon? Is curing poverity?
Grow the fuck up and stop posting your pissy little "toilets first" every time there's a post about India's space program. It wasn't funny then. It's not funny now.
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Where have you been? [vice.com]
Re:Working toilets for all first. Then explore spa (Score:4, Interesting)
The stupidest part is that the Indian space programme makes money. It's a for-profit enterprise. Scrapping it to focus on toilets would mean less money available to spend on toilets.
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I guess they didn't do the needful...
Cancelled (Score:1)
A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-56 minute. As a measure of abundant precaution, #Chandrayaan2 launch has been called off for today. Revised launch date will be announced later.
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false, India is classified as country with massive amounts of rape including of underaged, that are under-reported. Beatings of women is common and underreported too, and more than half the population thinks its fine for woman to be beaten.
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incidentally in 2012 alone over 1 million rape cases were under trial, but only a seventh of them convicted as they shift blame to the woman.
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at least that Alabama law immediately went before the courts
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You really are a typical clueless racist cunt aren't you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
India has been characterised as one of the "countries with the lowest per capita rates of rape".
I'm actually half Indian and am full aware of the countries issues which is why I mentioned it. I go back once a year to see family and witness the poverty first hand. Take your white guilt and leave.
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Re: They can pull it off (Score:1)
There's a big difference between the situations in SF and India.
SF has toilets. They work. The problem there is that leftists refuse to allow people to be held responsible for their own actions. People choose not to use a toilet, and they're allowed to get away with it.
It's clearly different in India. Many regions don't have functioning toilets at all. So there's not even a choice to be made. Toilets just aren't available at all.
They're very different situations.
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Here's the real reason they're not talking... (Score:2)
The rocket already landed. [wikimedia.org]