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Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month

Posted by timothy on from the goa-head-with-launch dept.

Anil Kandangath writes with word that the Indian moon mission plans (mentioned earlier on Slashdot) are about to be put to the test. "While the spacecraft itself will not land on the Moon, it will act as an orbiter and land a rover on the surface. The spacecraft is being launched next month sometime between October 22 and October 26. The spacecraft payload includes 11 payloads (including one from NASA) and will perform remote sensing and studies of the lunar surface. The mission is estimated to cost Rs 386 crore (~ 84.3 million USD)." Update: 09/21 18:29 GMT by T : Thanks to reader Anil Gaddam for pointing out that this figure had been originally misstated as 7.7 million USD.

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  1. 88 million USD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=386+crore+inr+in+usd&btnG=Search

    1. Re:88 million USD by cyanid3 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Majority of Indians prefer to use lakhs/lacs instead of hundred thousand and one crore instead of ten million. Summary is written by an Indian.

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      loldongs dongslol
  2. Hmm. Maybe thats closer to 84 million USD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not quite so good but still cheap.

    Perhaps we should outsource NASA?

    1. Re:Hmm. Maybe thats closer to 84 million USD by RaceProUK · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yoda is Indian?

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      No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
  3. Or in UK units: by Curmudgeonlyoldbloke · · Score: 5, Funny

    0.00129 Olympicses.

  4. Re:Misconversion? by NoisySplatter · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a space program, it's supposed to be missing decimals or digits.

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    In Soviet Russia meme tires of you!
  5. namaste by Monkey-some · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is nice to see a nation like India, who got quite a few brilliant people, enters into the space race "as a major player".

  6. Secret mission details. by old+dr+omr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Secret mission details: Apparently invloves 240,000 Miles of rope and a very loud flute.

  7. Crore, lakh etc by shas3n · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indians use a different system of counting. After the thousand, they have a name for every second power of ten (unlike the western system of naming every third power). The system goes like this: 1000: 1e3: Thousand 100 thousands: 1e5 : Lakh 100 lakhs : 1e7 : Crore So 386 crores at about 46 INR a dollar is about 86 million USD.

  8. Re:Thank you, come again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First they laugh at you ... then they ignore you ... then they fight you ... then you win ...

  9. Re:What! Even NASA is outsourcing to India? by rhyder128k · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Delhi, we are having a problem!"

    "Space module 1, are you sure your computer is plugged in?"

    "Yes, we have already checked that."

    "You are sure?"

    "Yes, we are very sure."

    "What is the model of your router?"

    "What?!!"

    --
    Michael Reed, freelance tech writer.
  10. No rover on this mission. by lessgravity · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Chandrayaan-2 mission will be the first rover mission and is scheduled for 2011.
    Great info about the mission here