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Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?
by whoknowswhat11 3y ago
Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?
- stall84 3y agoThe whole Prime Minister thing was bizarre to me .. He was like on the mission-control screen with his own panel .. it was just weird lol.. Even in the US where our presidents fancy themselves god's.. it still just had a weird perception from my point of view.. But I'm proud of the people that worked on and executed that mission for them. Obviously a moment of immense national pride, well deserved.
- hoseja 3y agoYou can see the onboard camera view in the background sometimes. And the only truly hard thing about this is getting the political will for the funding, so.
- whoknowswhat11 3y agoIs it still updating? Was hard to tell. But just 30 seconds of that would be great
- hoseja 3y agoActually not sure, the last image I caught didn't look particularly "landed".
- shri_krishna 3y ago> Why such a long political speech ISRO is primary arm of the Department of Space which is headed by the Prime Minister. So in essence, the Prime Minister is the boss. It is not an independent federal agency like NASA.
- factorialboy 3y agoIf my understanding is correct, did the PM in his speech promise to fund a future mission to Saturn?
- shri_krishna 3y agoI am sorry I did not pay close attention to his speech. But in the subsequent speech, I think the ISRO chief did talk about a Venus Orbiter Mission.
- shubhamkrm 3y agoIIRC, he mentioned missions to the Sun, Venus and a manned space mission.
- goku12 3y agoI really wish to see a lander mission to Venus. Doesn't look like anybody other than Russia has done it - that too nearly 40 years ago. The environment is so extreme that the technology - especially electronics - would have to be radically different. The data is also likely to be extremely interesting.
- basementcat 3y agoOne of the probes from Pioneer Venus 2 (launched by NASA in 1978) briefly sent back data after impacting the surface of Venus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Venus_Multiprobe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Venus_Multiprobe
- goku12 3y agoThat's an interesting outcome! Thanks!
- ape4 3y agoSo many words about "success" - how about some goodies?! (To be clear, I am happy for India, just think it could be presented better)
- whoknowswhat11 3y agoRight - they had a great camera running - let’s enjoy a few rolling frames of the same spot showing touchdown area and systems working
- dotnet00 3y agoUnfortunately all the national space agencies seem to suffer from this. Both NASA and ESA also seem to think that people are tuning in to watch the smarmy politician talk rather than the robot making its way to space/landing on another body. Had the same issue with JWST for example.
- whoknowswhat11 3y agoThat was very memorable- grainy photos projected on a wall while nasa admin (old white guy) briefed Biden? Jwst had a pretty well planned out program for first images including events and it just got crushed.
- sva_ 3y agoI can imagine that this is a HN-bubble thing. Most people would probably get bored from just seeing some live footage.
- Philip-J-Fry 3y agoSpaceX livestreams didn't get super popular for having a politician on them. They got popular for showing exactly what's happening with enthusiastic presenters narrating it. Most people find speeches and politicians boring. They wanna see rockets flying, robots moving, etc.
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- layer8 3y agoBecause the whole endeavor was financed for its political impact.
- samstave 3y agoThey dont want us to see the little green UAPs that closely monitor what we are doing :-)
- jp42 3y agoI absolutely agree that they should immediately release data & images for more technically inclined section. However the reason for speeches is entire nation is watching this event across all age group, most of them don't understand technical things, I would say even image of moon surface wont connect to most of them. Basically speeches is the way to connect & artists impression images. To give some example, people thing entire rocket goes to moon, one of the politician was wishing "passengers" on the spacecraft, reputed news channel claiming "breaking new" that there wont be delay in landing as if we can push breaks like in car or traffic on the way. So you get the point, to connect to masses they are speaking in language that everyone understand