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Indian satellite captured by Moon


Lunar capture (LC) has been achieved; now for a closer orbit


India is celebrating the arrival of its Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft at the Moon.
An 817-second burn from the probe's engine on Saturday slowed Chandrayaan sufficiently for it to be captured by the lunar body's gravity.
The craft is now in an 11-hour polar ellipse that goes out to 7,502km from the Moon and comes as close as 504km.
Further brakings will bring the Indian satellite down to a near-circular, 100km orbit from where it can begin its two-year mapping mission.
Launched on 22 October, Chandrayaan is India's first satellite to break away from the Earth's gravitational field and reach the lunar body. CHANDRAYAAN 1

1 - Chandrayaan Energetic Neutral Analyzer (CENA)
2 - Moon Impact Probe (MIP)
3 - Radiation Dose Monitor (RADOM)
4 - Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC)
5 - Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)
6 - Chandrayaan 1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS)
7 - Solar Panel


The mission will compile a 3D atlas of the lunar surface and map the distribution of elements and minerals.
Powered by a single solar panel generating about 700 Watts, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) probe carries five Indian-built instruments and six constructed in other countries, including the US, Britain and Germany.
The Indian experiments include a 30kg probe that will be released from the mothership to slam into the lunar surface.
The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) will record video footage on the way down and measure the composition of the Moon's tenuous atmosphere.
It will also drop the Indian flag on the surface of the Moon.


BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Indian satellite captured by Moon

Oooh.. ooh!

Will it be able to take pictures of the moon rover and all that other junk left up there by the merkins?

It's got a Terrain Mapping Camera



Should get a few nice snaps with that.

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

take pictures of the moon rover and all that other junk left up there by the merkins?

It would be nice to put all that conspiracy crap to rest once and for all. But then they would just say that the Indian photos were faked

Are they planning to eventually move all the hungry Indians up there?

Originally Posted by Rattanaburi

Are they planning to eventually move all the hungry Indians up there?

Well if there are any "Hungry Indians", whose fault is that?

Where did they come from?

OH, There are in India because they have been fucking and procreating the race when there have been no way to make a living for the last couple of centurys..

Well just who's fucking fault is that,, Not Mine,,

And I do not think the Indian Govt forces them to do it.

So FUCK EM.

Maybe the Indians will find cheese.

^
But they plan to drop an Indian flag on the moon.

Surely that's worth the expense.

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

^
But they plan to drop an Indian flag on the moon.

Surely that's worth the expense.

Is Tom Hanks in this film?

Similar to China . . . poverty and Space Programs financial aid from the West = logic

What does that have to do with anything ? Technological advancement is a necessity for huge nations like India and China, and it doesn't affect the budget or the priority of poverty reduction at all. Projects like this require a huge number of scientists which in turn stimulates the education system, the private sector, investment in cooperating and supplier companies etc etc.. Far more effective stimuli than silly feed the poor programs, as cynic as it may sound. Like it has been correctly stated by blackgang India has a population growth that is simply eating up all economic growth and wealth. So it's not really evil politicians spending on unnecessary rocket science instead of its poor that is the real problem. India has been fighting unsuccesfully for 50 years to reduce its population growth:
India Population
And handing out rice is a very ineffective and counterproductive way of helping the poor, education and condoms will do a far better job.

Yup. The poor are poor becoz their parents were poor and wanted to fuck.

Simple solution, everyone who reaches puberty and doesn't earn enough to support a kid gets sterilised.

Far better than all the 'feed the poor' bollix.

Can introduce a 'involuntary euthanasia at 65' law too. So they poor don't have to look after aging parents.

As someone said 'More than machinery, we need humanity'

Steralizing them is hardly fair, baring in mind the west has caused most of the poverty out there.

Originally Posted by plorf

Hehe.. like I said Chairman Mao, it does often sound cynical and not very humane, and I wasn't 'blaming' the poor for being stupid and having a high reproduction rate, it was a simple pinpointing of the real issue. it's just that past policies in India haven't been as effective as Chinas in combatting overpopulation and overpopulation it is, with an extremely high density rate even in rural areas. And they wouldn't be more effective if India cancelled its space program.

Not even if they put the $$billions into reducing population growth in a proactive manner.

etc etc.

Originally Posted by plorf

and the point about sea-trade was a joke right ?

TEA trade.

Britain stole the secrets of tea cultivation from the tiddly winks and started to grow it in India.

oh. misread, sry.

Originally Posted by plorf

What does that have to do with anything ? Technological advancement is a necessity for huge nations like India and China, and it doesn't affect the budget or the priority of poverty reduction at all. Projects like this require a huge number of scientists which in turn stimulates the education system, the private sector, investment in cooperating and supplier companies etc etc.. Far more effective stimuli than silly feed the poor programs, as cynic as it may sound. Like it has been correctly stated by blackgang India has a population growth that is simply eating up all economic growth and wealth. So it's not really evil politicians spending on unnecessary rocket science instead of its poor that is the real problem. India has been fighting unsuccesfully for 50 years to reduce its population growth:
India Population
And handing out rice is a very ineffective and counterproductive way of helping the poor, education and condoms will do a far better job.

wot he said!

Originally Posted by November Rain

40 years after the first piece of cloth was planted there

Or was it ?????????

^ Oh, Lord, don't start with the stupid CMN endorsed conspiracy theories. He doesn't believe in dolphins, either, y'know!

Originally Posted by plorf

Technological advancement is a necessity for huge nations like India and China

True . . . but you can hardly suggest that a space program id the best technological field to spend your pennies - especially if you're one of the poorest countries on earth.
May I then ask you why Switzerland, Sweden, Australia etc . . . don't have one? How about larger places . . . Germany, France, the UK? (Oh, and satellite technology is not the same . . . plus one can actually earn money from this venture

Originally Posted by plorf

it doesn't affect the budget or the priority of poverty reduction at all.

Of course it does, how can you possibly say that it doesn't when a national budget is divvied up and an extravagance like this DOES take away from others . . . logic would tell you that a pie is of a certain size. The more pieces you have the smaller the portions, eventually.

Originally Posted by plorf

Far more effective stimuli than silly feed the poor programs

I'm sure the poor would not agree with you, but then they can work in your sweatshops making Indian Space Program T-Shirts for 0.20c a day. The space program actually touches very few people/companies/suppliers.

Originally Posted by plorf

So it's not really evil politicians spending on unnecessary rocket science

Did anyone say that or are you entering the realm of gutter discussion?

Originally Posted by plorf

India has been fighting unsuccesfully for 50 years to reduce its population growth:

So, it is a good idea to use the funds in other ways . . . Yes, great idea.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Yup. The poor are poor becoz their parents were poor and wanted to fuck.

Plorf and Chairman Mao . . . nice couple.


China's annual budget (2006 figures) exceeds $2 billion

India's annual budget (2008 figures) is close to $1 billion


So, now India has one so Pakistan will need one . . . just like the nuclear race between the two. there is no necessity, there is only one-upmanship for these things.

And then I ask again why these two still receive development aid from countries that don't have anything as advanced as this.

1. Chairman Mao was being sarcastic and thus disagrees with me. So far only Kingwilly seemed to agree with me.
2. I was merely stating that Indias policies to reduce population growth and thus poverty has to date not been as effective as it could have been. Not saying at all the efforts were in vain or less money should go in that area, the opposite is the case.
3. But, and this is my point, all the socialist policies to date have not achieved what IT and technology have managed, and that is to lift the living standard of millions of people and bring benefit to the whole subcontinent. Because without a broad middle class there is no money to redistribute.
4. And nlike stated above the aim of the Indian space program is not to place a little flag on the moon, but it is just the top achievement of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Indian Space Research Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
that actually makes money with its satellite technology ! And the aim of the mission is to measure and research the surface of the moon in a much more detailled way than has been done by any other country before and look for unknown ressources and materials. So it's rather populistic to suggest that India is funding an expensive and useless program for national prestige instead of helping its poors, because it's simply not true. India is investing and researching in technology, which is clearly a way out of poverty for this country !

edit: Oh, and yes Switzerland and Sweden are both members and big donors of the European Space Agency, which is the second largest in the world after NASA.