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Planning Phase Complete For Indian Moon Mission

Posted by timothy on from the good-luck dept.

alphakappa writes "According to news reports, India's low-cost moon mission -- Chandrayan -- has completed its planning phase and will be deployed in 2007-2008 as planned. The interesting aspect is that the entire mission is expected to cost only around USD 88 million. How do you think space technology will change as a result of these low cost missions, satellites and space vehicles?"

6 of 391 comments (clear)

  1. Low cost by ByteSlicer · · Score: 5, Funny

    They will outsource the whole project to themselves...

  2. change as a result of these low cost.... by Tailhook · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lost cost space;
    Some Indian engineer will confuse grams for Tola's and the thing will auger into the moon at 68.0e4 kph.

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  3. Planning-phase: Completed! by 10Ghz · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Go to space
    2) Land on the Moon
    3) Go back to Earth

    There, I finished planning-phase of my personal lunar-mission. Really, it's not that hard.

    I wonder that is the fourth step "Profit!"?

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  4. Re:"only" USD 88 million? by ElNeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could get one of the following for 88 mill:

    2904 full size 4WD pickup trucks
    8800-1760 houses (depending on where you live, of course)
    176000 TV's
    17600 snowmobiles
    4400000 music CD's
    3520 university educations (in the US. In some countries uni.educations is free, then the money would be used for beer.)
    44 Lear Jet airplane
    88088 Rubber ducks (Now on sale)
    1 Bush-for-president campaign...

    Nahhh...I think I still whould go for the Moon...

  5. Conspiracy Theory by cnb · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is actually a program secretly funded by the evil Indian Software companies to quickly get Indian developers flown cheap to US companies like Google setting up offshore research centers on the moon. :-P

    - cnb

  6. Re:What is the point? by stripyd · · Score: 4, Funny
    I guess the Moon itself only consists of the icing on the cake

    Dude, everyone knows the moon is made of panir!