India launches spacecraft to Mars

[JSCh]

Congrats from a Chinese, homeland of the inventor of gunpowder and rocket.

 

[kinsr]

Pretty much the entire mission after launch of the rocket.

Cant say anything more than, that you are simply stupid...

NASA will be providing the comm and nav while the IDSN is on the dark side to ISRO's Mars Orbiter. NASA's deep space network will be used by ISRO as a conduit to communicate with the Sat. NASA has nothing more to do with India's Mars Mission. Chandrayaan had NASA payloads but MOM doesnt have any any 3rd party payloads. All the 5 payload are all Indian.

Go educate yourself first then start to spit BS anywhere.

 

[Not Sure]

Aren't you going to congratulate NASA?

But.. but... but... NASA already congratulated ISRO!

And if everything after the launch should be credited to NASA, then if by any chance it fails, the failure should also be of NASA, and not of ISRO, right? After all ISRO did its job perfectly - successful launch!

Should be same as when the Mars bound Chinese satellite couldn't differentiate between Martian soil and Pacific Ocean, but is always blamed on the poor Russians who were the first to send a man into space.

So, O mighty supremely dominant Han, please tell us poor mortals what precise technicalities are provided to the ISRO by NASA? After all, because the Han supremacy knows no bounds, I am sure they must have taken your dominant Chinese advice as to what to provide ISRO with, and what not to.


Please enlighten us

 

[applesauce]

Yes, you are right...doesn't China has GLSV capabilities?

china has rockets that are about 4x as powerful as indian ones(in fact, had the large indian rockets not failed, they would have been used in this mission and would not need the gravity assists), though still behind US and Russia lift capabilities of course(hopefully matched by the next gen in development).

on the chinese mars mission:
the only mission china send was piggy backed on a russian rocket and probe, the chinese space plans are very sequentially thought out and done carefully(even the CNSA logo has the three rings for each step), it does not call for mars missions just yet(focus is on moon atm). the russian piggy back mission was chosen because it was cheap and ready to go. however the russian rocket failed and the probe never made it to mars.

so if this mission is successful it will mean that india will have one-upped china and others(and hats off to them). but it wont fundamentally change anything as the chinese program is clearly further ahead, with better rockets, manned missions, full satellite tracking and communications capabilties, and space station. preparation for the next step of lunar landing(which the soon to be launched chang'e 3 is a step towards) is well underway

tl dr:
good job india
but keep going and dont do the victory dance yet.

 

[feilong]

Cant say anything more than, that you are simply stupid...

NASA will be providing the comm and nav while the IDSN is on the dark side to ISRO's Mars Orbiter. NASA's deep space network will be used by ISRO as a conduit to communicate with the Sat. NASA has nothing more to do with India's Mars Mission. Chandrayaan had NASA payloads but MOM doesnt have any any 3rd party payloads. All the 5 payload are all Indian.

Go educate yourself first then start to spit BS anywhere.

So now NASA given you the launcher basically everything besides those payloads, good job India you will fail soon. Lol

 

[帅的一匹]

My sincere congratulation , great glory for Asia.

 

[MohitV]

So now NASA given you the launcher basically everything besides those payloads, good job India you will fail soon. Lol

launcher(pslv) is indian sir ........thank u

 

[feilong]

launcher(pslv) is indian sir ........thank u

Yup with the pslv paint jobs on it sir.

 

[MohitV]

Yup with the pslv paint jobs on it sir.

Respected sir,

http://www.isro.org/launchvehicles/PSLV/pslv.aspx

 

[KAL-EL]

Do not reply to this troll ID of a familiar poster, we can find whom he is and complain to mods in a short time.

lol and here I thought I might have been the only one to recognize the very familiar belligerent nationalistic troll under a new name.

 

[priti]

guys this is only the first step. please celebrate after one month when it is bound for mars.
but lets not belittle what is acheived today, although this has ben done several times (launch PSLV) 

Yup with the pslv paint jobs on it sir.

So now NASA given you the launcher basically everything besides those payloads, good job India you will fail soon. Lol

thanks. i wish you the same for your exams.

 

[Soms]

India is quite capable of sending a rocket to Mars and fighting poverty at the same time
By Leo Mirani @lmirani November 5, 2013

AP Photo/Arun Sankar K

This morning, India successfully launched a rocket to Mars. Christened Mangalyaan, or Mars vehicle, the rocket is part of a scientific mission that cost a grand total of Rs 4.5 billion, or $73 million. In terms of the space business, that’s a bargain. By contrast, NASA’s next Mars mission will cost $671 million and do the same thing as India’s craft: orbit the red planet collecting data.

The secret to India’s low-budget space program is a simple one: operating within constraints and without luxuries. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) adapts what technology it can, strips out costs wherever it can and is staffed with modestly-paid yet incredibly hard-working scientists, explains the Economic Times. It is willing to take more risks, for example by building just one physical model of its craft compared to the three employed by NASA in case one fails. And it sets tight schedules to reduce costs even further.

Won’t somebody please think about the children
Mangalyaan is an impressive achievement, both scientific and budgetary. But as several news reports have noted, India remains an extremely poor country with many millions still going hungry. One piece on a US site, headlined “India Swears Its Redundant, Mega-Priced Mars Probe Is Totally Worth It,” is explicit: “How does a country with one of the lowest development levels in the world justify spending on a space program?” This is as familiar and predictable a formulation as the articles by foreign correspondents that begin by calling India a “land of contrasts” and note with wonderment the sight of slums and great luxury apartments existing side by side.

ISRO’s founding father addressed this criticism several decades ago:

There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose. We do not have the fantasy of competing with the economically advanced nations in the exploration of the moon or the planets or manned space-flight. But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally and in the comity of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society.

Bangalored
Indeed, India’s space research and other advanced technological efforts are what birthed its technology industry. Bangalore did not become a tech hub simply because of its pleasant weather and lovely gardens. It is the home of ISRO, the Defence Research and Development Organisation, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, and other high-tech industries that created an environment for and pool of engineers.

Moreover, the $73 million India spent on Mangalyaan is hardly snatching food from the mouths of starving babies. Two months ago, the government signed into law the Food Security Bill, which will provide roughly 800 million Indians with subsidized food and cost just under an estimated $20 billion every year. Whether you think that the bill is an outstanding piece of humanitarian legislation or a colossal scam that will only enrich middlemen and bureaucrats, it is impossible to argue that Indian government is splashing out on sexy space rockets at the expense of the poor. Mangalyaan costs less than 0.4% of the bill’s annual budget.

Questioning a poor country’s decision to launch a space program also implicitly ignores the fact that rich countries have poor people too. In 1962, President John F Kennedy declared to Americans that “we choose to go to the moon.” That year, 38.6 million Americans, or 21% of the nation (Excel file), lived below the poverty line. Last year, it was still 15%.

Loved the Vikram Sarabhai Quote!!

http://qz.com/143717

 

[third eye]

Pretty much the entire mission after launch of the rocket.

People from a nation where a Dog is passed of as a Lion in the zoo can hardly find fault with another !!



http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/16/world/asia/china-zoo-dog-lion/

Hong Kong (CNN) -- A zoo in China has angered visitors by trying to pass off a hairy dog as a lion, Chinese state media reported.

A visitor, surnamed Liu, told the state-run Beijing Youth Daily she discovered the fraud when visiting a zoo in a park in Louhe, a city in the central province of Henan, with her son.

As they approached the cage marked "African lion," they were shocked to hear the beast inside emit a bark.

It was a Tibetan mastiff -- a large, hairy breed of dog.

"The zoo is absolutely trying to cheat us," Liu said. "They are trying to disguise dogs as lions."

A Tibetan mastiff (not a lion).

Other species in the park were similarly mislabeled, the newspaper reported, with another dog in the wolf cage, and a white fox on display in the leopard enclosure.

The head of the park's animal department, Liu Suya, told CNN that the animals had been substituted for various reasons, and would be back in their rightful place soon.

The lion and leopard had both been removed for breeding, she said, with the Tibetan mastiff placed in the lion's cage temporarily "due to safety concerns."

The zoo is absolutely trying to cheat us. They are trying to disguise dogs as lions.
Liu, zoo visitor
Similarly, the dog had been placed in the wolf enclosure to breed a hybrid wolf-dog, she said. "We're not doing it out of shortage of funds," she said.

The substitute lion has drawn ridicule on Chinese social media, with one commenter describing the situation as "absurd."

"If this works why would people even bother to go to the zoo!" wrote Guohebaxiaoma. "Children will cry out 'look a lion came out!' at the sight of Tibetan Mastiff or 'look it's a rat!' seeing snake on the street...This is totally absurd!"

Yidongdexulaoshi said: "This time you're lucky. Because perhaps next time you will find that all the animals in the zoo are played by the faculty. LOL."

"It's way too ironic. Why doesn't the zoo simply just put the zookeeper in a cage with the sign "Gorilla" on its gate," Lanseyapingningliuxunqing added.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Congrats from Germany, the Homeland of the first modern rocket and its creator Dr. Wernher von Braun.
As India's space capabilities improve & mature, so i hope does the cooperation with us, Israel, USA, France & other countries in this field.

And don't let anybody tell you that you should invest your money somewhere else instead of the space program & industries.

Ich Liebe Dr Von Braun

 

[SrNair]

first of all welcome to PDF!!

well u know old habits die hard.....

Thank You,well I am just ask about news I can see from TV and internet
Well done ISRO