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ISRO lose contact with Chandrayaan-2 lander during final descent
Following a historic July 22 launch on a GSLV Mk-III rocket from the east coast of India, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft – the robotic lander and rover, specifically – attempted a soft landing on the surface of the Moon on Friday. All was proceeding to plan until just 2km above the surface when telemetry was lost and the vehicle will have likely crashed into the lunar surface.
[...] The Vikram lander was aiming to softly touch down about 350 kilometers (218 miles) away from the South Pole-Aitken Basin rim on Friday evening. However, with all proceeding to plan, including the braking phase of the mission ahead of final descent, telemetry was lost.
[...] Although no explanation was provided, it is clear the mission has failed.
Also at NYT and India Today.
Previously: Chandrayaan-2 Updates: Lunar Orbit Insertion and Lunar Orbit Maneuver
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @09:26AM (6 children)
Indeed,
one of my last experiences before quitting full-time IT was debugging a bit of code outsourced to Indian developers, it was thrown in my direction as it looked as if it was mostly doing the job, but then unexpectedly crashed horribly...there was much evidence of Messrs Cuttie & Pastie in the code, and it was obvious that they didn't understand what the code was doing, so, leaving aside any problems on the hardware side (and, wearing my Electronics hat, I have horrible memories of years of repairing board faults on dodgy Indian made X-terminals back in the day, bought by the PHB to save a few shekels), based on exposure to contract software originating from India, what happened to their probe does not surprise me in the least.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday September 07 2019, @11:59AM (1 child)
For $141 million, they got themselves a working Moon orbiter. So not a total loss.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @11:21PM
For $141 million, they could've got themselves a working sewer system. But, like the Tijuana river into San Diego... they let the shit run downhill.
(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday September 07 2019, @05:17PM (3 children)
Most Indians were taught using classic Russian books and methods. At least as far as math and physics are concerned. Why such a difference?
My own little theory and observations are that it is not because Indians are less bright, but because they, as well as many other Asians, do not want to be "workers". They want to be managers and owners. So even on a software development path, an Indian does not care about software. He only cares about promotion to the management. Such approach woks for him, but rockets would not fly.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @12:10AM
So it looks like they have been brainwashed into thinking abstract and meta instead of doing actual useful work.
Just like the khazar jews. Also, Indians seem to be friendly with the rothschild-owned khazar zionist israeli jews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @03:21AM
As an India let me just teach you so you don't overthink it and strain your brain noodles. India produces shit code because that is what is expected of them. The western 'outsource' 'managers' are under the impression that people in India are all relaxing, dreaming of becoming a manager (or god forbid, "owner") so they in all my experience every single time, give ridiculous deadlines with poorly explained requirements. The general perception that everyone there is just incompetent doesn't help either, creating a chicken and egg problem. Close to 99% of the work that comes to India is UI development. I hope you get the picture. Plus the competition in India... let us just say that if you don't know anything about it. Damn Frenchmen go to strike on rising petrol price, and Americans elect Trump. Meanwhile, half the people in India don't earn enough to buy a liter of gas each day.
And one more thing - the managers get paid a decent salary, software developers get treated like a cattle in an imported American culture of shitting on nerds. You get what you pay for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @05:17AM
Early U.S. and Soviet Moon landing attempts ended in failure. North Korea can't get missiles or nukes to work properly on the first try. India can't nail its first Moon landing attempt.
The lesson is that trial and error is still needed for newcomers even if the pioneers have already shown how to do it.