India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing

Nothing to worry about here, they'll probably go at night.
- Doesn't that just increase the number of stars they need to dodge?
  
  That's why they choose a cloudy night

This one will be tougher to land on.
- And hotter, unless they go at night
  
  They'll have to time that right
- It is a bright idea but I don't think it's the right bright

Still waiting for them to launch a mission to get rid of the caste system
- If the US can go to space while issuing drone strikes on civilians, if Russia can go to space while invading countries, I don't see why India can't go to space while still being backwards about the caste system. Also it's not like the government endorses the caste system, unlike the aforementioned examples.
  
  Whataboutism bs. Two wrongs don't make a right.
  whataboutism /ˌwɒtəˈbaʊtɪz(ə)m/ noun the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.
- How is that related to the space mission? Or are we trying to make this look like a Reddit comment section now? It’s an issue in India but that’s not relevant to their accomplishments in space exploration now is it?
  
  It is when so much of their population struggles in poverty 🙃
- Even though I couldn't find any connection between a space mission to sun and casteism, I could assure you friend the latter is much difficult to solve. That's why countries still struggle with casteism or racism or sexism or some other evil-ism, but we shouldn't let it hold us back from the technical and scientific advancements. In fact one could argue building a science oriented society is the way to eradicate these issues.
  
  Yeah, I love it when people act like America doesn't have a fucking caste system. As though there weren't millions of Americans who voted for a rich guy who planned to build a wall to keep the "illegals" out of the country. And there wasn't a massive lobbyist effort by multi-billion dollar companies and oligarchs to kill unemployment benefits in order to push people back into shitty service jobs that pay peanuts.
- whatever or whoever they land on the sun will no longer be in any system, so maybe this is the first step?
  
  I mean if anything for sure it will be in a system, the solar system. Not in original form though...
- HHGTG covered this. They'll simply put the lower classes on a space ark
- 👀
- LOL. This is clearly how to tell
  "I'm jealous of another country achieving something better than my country"
  without actually telling
  "I'm jealous of another country achieving something better than my country"
  
  I'll be jealous of india once they get rid of all their billionares and feed the poor instead
  
  Lol, im sorry but there's nothing to be jealous of India. Im happy they accomplished the landing in the moon, but they have a lot problems that they need to solve in their country.
- keep waiting bitch

Very interesting. Solar probes and low budgets usually don't go together. That's a lot of deceleration.
- I usually only thought about slingshotting to speed up, I'd never considered slowing down past that one scene in The Martian. Can you elaborate further?
  
  There are 2 ways to go sunward. You can shed speed to reduce orbital distance, but 30 km/s is a lot of velocity to change. Or you use another body (often antisunward) and a slingshot to put the craft in a highly eccentric orbit that, at times, is near the sun - so you have many proximal destinations you have to hit without error to meet your course. A mars transfer is easier but you want to hit certain proximity windows.
  
  From my knowledge in KSP, in a nutshell if you pass by a large gravitational mass on one side you'll speed up, but if you pass on the other side you'll slow down. Throw in an engine burn across the periapse (closest point) and you'll amplify that much more.

After the sun, we go to Sagittarius A*
- At this pace, India will have the observable universe perfectly charted by year's end.
  
  No rest until a probe can shake Vishnu's hand(s)
- Going for the tech victory, classic

Wonderful. I hear the weather there is always sunny.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
The latest mission in India’s ambitious space program has blasted off on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country’s successful unmanned moon landing.
“Launch successful, all normal,” an Indian Space Research Organisation official announced from mission control as the vessel made its way to the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Raychaudhury said the mission probe would study coronal mass ejections, a periodic phenomenon that sees huge discharges of plasma and magnetic energy from the sun’s atmosphere.
Aditya is travelling on the ISRO-designed, 320-tonne PSLV XL rocket that has been a mainstay of the Indian space program, powering earlier launches to the moon and Mars.
The South Asian nation has a comparatively low-budget space program, but one that has grown considerably in size and momentum since it first sent a probe to orbit the moon in 2008.
Experts say India can keep costs low by copying and adapting existing technology, and thanks to an abundance of highly skilled engineers who earn a fraction of their foreign counterparts’ wages.
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Do you want to kill Cillian Murphy? Because this is how you kill Cillian Murphy.
- Man the first two acts of that movie are one of the best scifi stories I've ever seen and the third act of that movie is one of the worst slasher films I've ever seen

busy week huh

Yo, don't land on that one though /s
- I was thinking the same. I wanted to see how long it was going to take to get there, then saw in the article it says it is actually only traveling 1% of the distance from the earth to the sun to offset earth's gravitational pull with the suns and then create an orbit around the Sun. It doesn't say how long the travel time was unless I missed it.
  Should create a cool vantage point for photos I imagine
  
  Someone posted a graphic that says travel time is about 4 months.
  
  On one hand, calling that a mission to the sun is a bit... optimistic, on the other, travelling to the sun (and in the same way to Mercury and Venus) is much harder than the other way around.

They don't rest on their laurels, do they?

SpaceX and Daddy Elon isn't happy.
- Elon
  Who carez
- He's incapable of being happy. That's why he keeps taking other people's toys and breaking them.
- I'd be happy to have him board the rocket to the Sun.

ITT: Triggered americans.

I wonder if there’s beer on the sun.

Whats the goal?

Pretty insane to watch that India is taking over spacex and NASA.
- The day that India masters recoverable, or self-landing boosters, its over for SpaceX.

a nice juicy fuck you to the 150,000,000 people living on £2 a day
- Ice cold take. Space programs are almost entirely about increasing domestic production with a strong R&D and training emphasis.
  
  Don’t tell me, tell the hungry. They’d love to hear your ice cold takes
- At least they aren't investing it in more nuclear weapons to point at Pakistan.
- It's not like they could have taken this money and made any significant impact on the problem. Plus space programs have indirect long term benefits that are hard to calculate.
  More scientists and high tech industries is a good thing for a country.
  
  There are too many poor people so it’s not worth bothering ?
  You could feed and clothes tens of millions of people with India’s space budget - and educate them as rocket scientists if you wanted .
  Space exploration is largely a folly, while people are hungry .
- There are corrupt politicians and businessmen who steal money from the poor and spend it on stupid shit that is definitely higher than ISRO's budget and yet ISRO's budget is the only thing that we need to shit about.
- keep seething .