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Popeidol writes:
"In November, India took the next step in their space program by launching their Mangalyaan Mars orbiter. The orbiter won't arrive for a while yet, but they've managed to get some public attention for a different reason: the fact that the entire mission costs only 75 million dollars, substantially less than the budget for the hit movie 'Gravity.'
While the question of wages is bound to come up (it was only 15% of the budget of the project), I think we can all agree that bringing down the cost of interplanetary space travel to a level attainable by the ultra-rich is a good step forward."
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India Goes to Mars for Less Than 'Gravity's' Budget
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(Score: 1) by No Respect on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:23PM
Don't they think it's a little premature to start braying about their phenomenal success story?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Zoot on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:05PM
Indeed, the second-tier space programs' Mars missions have shown a strong tendency to choose the Simplified Planetary Landing Approach Trajectory as their "terminal" guidance plan, not that US programs have been in any way immune to this either.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by omnichad on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:24PM
It's far enough along that they've probably figured out that they didn't make a metric conversion error. So that already puts them ahead of NASA's early Mars record.