Chandrayaan-3: India's historic Moon mission lifts off successfully
With Chandrayaan-3, India aims to be the first to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.
Congrats to India! Glad to see more space programs succeed.
I'm not. Seems like a waste of money when their children are starving.
"Let's stop all progress until we deal with insertyourproblemofchoice" has never been a good take, it stifles development without actually helping. In an ideal world that might work, but as is it just doesn't.
To add to that, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt that starving children in India is actually a mere money problem. It looks more like a wealth distribution problem, and that one doesn't get fixed by stopping space programs.
ISROʼs last lunar exploration mission was in 2019 and called Chandrayaan-2. The lunar orbiter succeeded. The lunar lander, named Vikram, failed, crashing onto the lunar surface. Vikram contained a lunar rover named Pragyan.
Here is Scott Manleyʼs review of the Vikram failure.
Here is a New York Times gift article link about today's (2023-07-14) launch.
Here are animations of the planned orbits (Videos (1,2) by Phoenix777 / 🅭🅯🄎 4.0):
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Back in Reddit, you couldn't have a single post about India's space works without the mods locking the threads. I had hoped those fuckers would stay there.
Fuckers are here now.
I'll believe it when it doesn't crash and burn like the last one.
India has a long history of making huge claims, failing, and then claiming that was the goal.
I’ll believe it when it doesn’t crash and burn like the last one.
Check back here on 2023-08-23, then.
Wait, really? Can you think of any examples off the top of your head? I read elsewhere on this thread they had a previous attempt at this mission which crashed and burned (Vikram and Pragyan)
