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Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI love to see it! Great work and congrats to the team!
- iKevinShah 3y agoCongratulations ISRO. What you have achieved with what you have got, its truly marvelous.
- dcow 3y agoWithout context this could be interpreted as patronizing (or worse). You’re talking about their small budget, right?
- seatac76 3y agoGood stuff.
- checker659 3y agoI'd love to know the total cost of the whole project. This has go to be the cheapest moon landing ever, right?
- vijaykodam 3y agoOn the day of the launch, news agency Reuters said in a report that Chandrayaan-3 has been built on a budget of just under $75 million (around ₹ 615 crore).
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- mikepurvis 3y agoWow, so definitely well within the range of private industry or even private individuals.
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- psychphysic 3y agoOut of curiosity, what are flat earthers saying? That Russia faked a crash and India faked a success? Why?!
- narrator 3y agoAttacking the source of the information is so common these days that most people mistake that for a good argument.
- matt-attack 3y agoDoesn’t help that the video they’re all cheering over is a computer rending (presumably being pieced together from real time telemetry data being received). Gives the layperson the idea that the whole thing is being faked.
- moopie 3y agoNASA paid both to keep the globe earth delusion alive Or something like that
- bearjaws 3y agoYou can't logic your way out of a position you didn't logic your way into.
- readthenotes1 3y agoA friend of mine said: You can't logic your way out of a crazy box. (Referring how to treat with people who are somewhat mentally Disturbed)
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- psychphysic 3y agoWell put.
- jackmott42 3y agoYeah, a lot of people have this idea that you fight misinformation with calm, collected, rational argument. Well, I guess I need to prepare a cold, calm, collected rational argument about how that isn't at all effective, heh.
- AwaAwa 3y agoThe global south reaches the lunar south.
- sidcool 3y agoThis will inspire more Indians to go into STEM and stay in India. Golden age of India's space ambitions has arrived.
- tzfld 3y agoWondering how Russians feel about the success of Chandrayaan-3 after the failure with their Luna 25.
- actuator 3y agoRussia has a wonderful space program with ability to reliably go to space and are one of the biggest contributors to ISS. Setbacks happen, but I am sure that doesn't change how they feel about Chandrayaan-3
- ben_w 3y ago"Glorious Russian probe came second, decadent Indian probe came second-last" (I vaguely remember there was a headline along those lines about a 2-way athletics event between the USSR and the USA)
- justplay 3y agoThe crash of Luna 25 disheartens me as an engineer, representing a substantial loss of effort and work. However, I'm pleased with Chandrayaan-3's success.
- Ingaz 3y agoSh*t happens. What else?
- VWWHFSfQ 3y agoIt seems like there's a lot of renewed activity of various nations trying to land on the moon recently. Is this just a rite of passage for a space program? Or is there some other reason? I have to imagine that if there was actually some real benefit then USA would still be sending landers all the time. Curious what the interest is.
- catchnear4321 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program less a rite of passage, more a new wave of activity.
- gsatic 3y agoBack in 2017 ISRO had a record setting 104 satellites deployed on a single launch. Everyone said India would become the goto destination for cheap launches. Since then tens of thousands of satellites have been launched but very few via ISRO. So for whatever reason they totally missed that boat, and maybe their moon/sun/human space flight stuff is some kind of pivot.
- isignal 3y agoWouldn’t say they missed the boat. ISRO did launch some of the OneWeb constellation recently https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace_India_Limited https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace_India_Limited It’s just a slow ramp up. India’s rockets aren’t yet capable pf heavy payloads like SpaceX.
- matthewfelgate 3y agoCongrats. Landing on the moon is hard. This makes India just the 4th country to land on the moon.
- spants 3y agoI find this party crazy: Britain is set to boost aid to India by 70 per cent, it has emerged, just days after the country launched a rocket into space. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), which distributes aid, sent India £33.4 million in aid cash in 2022/23. But the FCDO’s annual report, published this week, reveals that the total is set to rise to £57 million in 2024/25. This will be topped up by an as-yet-unknown amount from the business department, which usually gives more than £10 million. Why send aid to a country with a space program?
- rinka_singh 3y agoThe amount is really measly (a couple of million GBP per year). I came across this calculation that ISRO earned something like 330M GBP over the past 9 years from it's 3rd party satellite launches. This is a question we Indians have been asking too. We also don't see the need for this in the first place.
- bibin765 3y agoBritain is just trying to give back what they had taken
- spants 3y agoprobably more like greasing wheels to enable business
- jwestbury 3y agoHaving a space program isn't incompatible with needing aid. You can definitely make arguments about where money is being invested, of course. But you can also make arguments that Britain probably owes India a lot more than the current aid levels, so I think there's some real nuance here that probably isn't captured by HN comments.
- hiyer 3y agoBritain doesn't give aid to the Indian government. It gives aid to various NGOs that work there.