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The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in July is planning to launch a triple-threat mission to the Moon. The Chandrayaan-2 mission, will launch July 14 at 5:51 p.m. EDT (2151 GMT).
The Chandrayaan-2 mission will include an orbiter, a lander "Vikram" and a rover "Pragyan".
After launch, Chandrayaan-2 will spend about 16 days orbiting Earth, raising its orbit slowly over time before heading to the moon, the Times of India reported. It should take the mission about five days to reach the moon, after which Chandryaan-2 will spend 27 days in lunar orbit before releasing the Vikram lander.
If all goes well, Vikram will touch down near the moon's south pole on Sept. 6 in what promises to be a harrowing 15-minute landing sequence, ISRO officials have said.
"The 15-minute operation - in which Vikram makes the final descent and soft-lands - will be the most terrifying as we have never attempted such a complex mission," ISRO chairman K Sivan said in a June 11 press conference according to the Times of India.
The solar-powered Vikram is expected to deploy the small Pragyan rover about four hours after landing. Together, the lander and rover are designed to last about one lunar day (14 Earth days) on the moon's surface, while the Chandrayaan-2 orbtier[sic] continues its mission for a full year, according to an ISRO overview.
Similar to the ill-fated Beresheet lander, the Vikram lander is carrying
a NASA experiment called the Laser Retro-reflector Array for Lunar Landers, a mirror-like device designed to reflect laser signals that can be used to pinpoint the Vikram lander's location and measure the distance between the Earth and moon.
In all the Orbiter, Lander, and Rover carry 13 different scientific instruments between them to study the moon from orbit and the surface, 8 of which are on the orbiter and will continue functioning long after the lander and rover.
(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Sunday June 16 2019, @07:40AM (5 children)
(Generic disparaging remark on the theme of the US alt-right's obsession with Indian toiletting habits, followed by a long comet-tail of gibberish racist comments).
Just thought I'd get that out of the way so others could have a legitimate discussion.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:02AM (3 children)
Originally a joint ISRO-Roscosmos project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2 [wikipedia.org]
Russians can be street shitters too if you pump enough vodka into them.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:33AM (2 children)
Yet they still defecate in public. Millions of people have limited or no access to an acceptable level of healthcare or food or clean water.
They insist on sending rockets to space at a cost of billions while their people live in squalor.
Well done, India.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:36AM
What makes you think most Indians don't have access to healthcare or food or clean water? Oh right, the Indian population is skyrocketing NOT because they have better access to healthcare, food and clean water than they had under British Raj, but because they just fuck like sewer rats that they are. Isn't it? Indians trying to get into space - is there no place left for superior humans?
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:07AM
What you fail to realize is that they've created the perfect society with high tech at the top and a squalid, starving underclass as the labor force.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:42AM
Forgive my innocence, but what has being on the right side of the political spectrum have to do with southern Asian Indians emptying their bowels in public?
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:09AM (5 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2 [wikipedia.org]
Orbiter, lander, and rover cost $86 million total. Launch cost is $54 million on an Indian-built rocket.
Best payloads IMO are in the orbiter (looking for water ice and minerals) and rover (analyze samples with spectroscopes). The rover also has "stereoscopic camera-based 3D vision" using two cameras, so I guess that data could be released as VR180 footage.
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(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:20AM (1 child)
I've had curry last night and I'm launching indian-built rockets for a lot less than $54M.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:36AM
Your payload: $14 (curry @ extra hot)
Their payload: $140 million (curry, extra loft)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:47AM (1 child)
Imagine how many toilets could have been installed in India for that money. That could have paid for tens of thousands of workers to dig ditches and lay pipework and build etcetcetc for a few years. So many jobs. All instead for one trip. Shame, shame, shame.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:38AM
You forgot to login realDonaldTrump
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:25AM
Yep, they sure keep the costs down.
However, overheard in a hallway at Space Central India:
"Yes, after simulations Jeb has recommended Moar Boosters!"
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(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:17AM (3 children)
Looks like someone got here before us...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:39AM (1 child)
They want the recognition for being the first to shit on the moon?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @05:06PM
You mean they don't bring it back like we do?
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:57AM
It's them Duke boys I'm sure of it! Now dammit Roscoe git out there an' catch em'! NOW!
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