Chandrayaan Enters Lunar Orbit

William Robinson writes "After an 18-day journey, Chandrayaan-1, the moon mission of India, has entered Lunar orbit. The maneuver was described as crucial and critical by scientists, who pointed out that at least 30 per cent of similar moon missions had failed at this juncture, resulting in spacecraft lost to outer space. The lunar orbit insertion placed Chandrayaan-1 in an elliptical orbit with its nearest point 400 to 500 kilometers away from the moon, and the farthest, 7,500 kilometers. By November 15, the spacecraft is expected to be orbiting the moon at a distance of 100 kilometers and sending back data and images (the camera was tested with shots looking back at Earth). The Chandrayaan-1 is also scheduled to send a probe to the moon's surface."

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Moon Impact Probe

[Anonymous Coward]

From the linked article: "The spacecraft will make observations from the initial orbit, and then the orbit will be lowered a 100 km circular polar orbit. Following this, the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) will be ejected, impacting the lunar surface."

I going to give my car a new name... Instead of "the old Honda Civic", I'm going to call it the "Car Impact Probe" ...that way I can justify all of my accidents as being for science's sake.

Re:Does it too smell of curry?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Sweeden third world too with all their socialism?

of course not, socialism puts the "wee!!!" in Sweeden

Re:Awesome

[grcumb]

The scientific community will certainly not stay hindi-fferent to this expansion of India's science curry-culum!

That's sikh. Trying to curry favour with the mods using such blatant pun jabs. I hope they're having nan of that.