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Maybe I should rephrase. Is this mission a scientific achievement? It could be a economics/accounting/marketing/HR/logistics achievement, but what is new scient
by induscreep 12y ago
Maybe I should rephrase. Is this mission a scientific achievement? It could be a economics/accounting/marketing/HR/logistics achievement, but what is new scientifically?
- sean_the_geek 12y agodo you understand enough "science" to fathom "scientific achievement"? If the people behind the mission explained to you "science" in it and what are the "scientific achievement", would you understand them?
- lobotryas 12y agoI think he was implying that this was largely a PR stunt.
- induscreep 12y agoEr yes I can. I want to know what is new since the 1971 orbiter success, and why India cannot put a rover on Mars.
- DanBC 12y agoIndia isbuilding the infrastructure that will allow them to put rovers, and possibly humans, on Mars.
- gnurag 12y agoIn the age of NSA sponsored spying, having an independent and largely self-taught space program is indeed a scientific achievement. Especially for a country that's 67 years old.
- mturmon 12y agoLet's put aside the science, because they haven't taken the data they wanted yet, so it's impossible to debate, and indeed somewhat beside the point for this 15kg instrument. The thing about spacecraft is that there is a huge engineering component. The s/c is in a novel environment (vacuum, radiation, cold) and many systems have to work together. You have to figure it all out in advance, using first-principles physics and modeling, and design and build a system that works without further manual intervention. Just getting it there intact is a significant achievement in systems engineering. Technology demonstration is what this mission was about.