India - Reaching The Moon

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http://www.dailytech.com/Indian+Moon+Probe...rticle13450.htm


<b> Indian Moon Probe Hits Moon Surface at 3,100 MPH</b>
Shane McGlaun (Blog) - November 17, 2008 2:35 PM Smilin.. on Nov 18 at 9:49 AM )

Indian scientists say they meant to do that and hope for a future "soft" landing

Going to the moon is old news to most Americans after we sent a manned mission to Earth's satellite in the 1960's. Since then, several other countries have sent unmanned missions to the moon to study the satellite, but no one has yet replicated America's manned landing.

India has now joined the small cadre of nations to send unmanned missions to the moon including the U.S., China, Russia, ESA, and Japan. India launched its moon mission in October sending its spacecraft called Chandrayaan-1 towards the moon with a lunar probe onboard.

The probe was sent hurtling towards the surface of the moon to an eventual crash landing in the Shackleton crater on the moon's south pole. The lander was emblazoned with the Indian flag and hit the surface of the moon moving at about 3,100 miles per hour.

Indian scientists say that the crash was planned and that they will use the data collected by the probe during its descent to plan a future soft landing on the moon. The descent to the surface took 25-minutes according to Space.com. Instruments on the probe included a video imaging system, radar altimeter and a mass spectrometer.

The video system took pictures of the moon during the decent while the altimeter measured the rate of decent and the mass spectrometer studied the thin atmosphere on the moon. India released some raw images taken and said that it had not yet begun to analyze the data returned by the probe. India has plans to land a rover on the moon in 2011 and hopes to one day send a manned mission.


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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/81702

[Guest]

Comments are interesting, India is 40 years late and people in front of microphone are not very good selecting their words. For India its big achievement.
Here in Silicon Valley school students are sending Mars probe for them its not a big deal.
I hope Indians don't try to re-invent everything plus they should involve students in future programme, not just from selective school or kids of selective parents.

[acharya]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Congratulations, India, on Chandrayaan–1 


Wednesday’s successful launching of India’s Chandrayaan-1, which means “Moon craft 1” in Sanskrit, raises even more the prestige of Mahatma Gandhi and Jahawarlal Nehru’s country.

This is only India’s first moon mission, unmanned, and even if observers say it is only “following China’s footsteps,” it should make the world recognize that this, the world’s most populous electoral democracy and the repository of one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, now shares with China and Japan the role of being the Asian equals of the West in scientific prowess.

Chandrayaan-1 makes Indians even prouder of their country. It has been registering the world’s second highest rate of economic growth (the first is China.).  Perhaps, more than China, India has uplifted more millions of its people from poverty in the past decade.

We hope and pray India will have more successes in space, especially with its growing closeness with the United States, and in socio-economic development.  <i>We pray even more fervently that this triumph will drive the Indian central government to move more decisively in putting an end to the communal violence perpetrated by Hindu nationalists against Indian Christians and missionaries</i>. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/o...081023opi3.html


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Here in Silicon Valley school students are sending Mars probe for them its not a big deal.
I hope Indians don't try to re-invent everything plus they should involve students in future programme, not just from selective school or kids of selective parents.
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I don't see point of going to moon, when it was already done with a manned mission 40 years ago. Obviously its great achievement, but India needs something that puts it above and beyond everyone else.

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Reaching moon was like a proof of concept for Indian technology. Also it is a good way to retain talent with in the organization and country.