Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Reaches 100km Lunar Orbit

Matt_dk writes "Today, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully reached its intended operational orbit at a height of about 100 km from the lunar surface. This followed a series of three orbit reduction manoeuvres conducted during the past three days by repeatedly firing the spacecraft's 440 Newton Liquid Engine. The next major event of Chandrayaan-1 mission planned in the coming days is the release of Moon Impact Probe (MIP) from the spacecraft and its eventual hitting of the moon's surface."

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Indian Flag on moon

[iammani]

Some interesting facts about this attempt:

India will drop its flag on the moon to establish its presence, Nair said in an interview. This will make India the fourth country after the US, Russia, and Japan to have its flag on the moon.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/India_will_plant_flag_on_the_moon_ISRO_chief/articleshow/3620255.cms

With today's (on 8th Nov) successful manoeuvre, India becomes the fifth country to send a spacecraft to Moon. The other countries, which have sent spacecraft to Moon, are the United States, former Soviet Union, Japan and China. Besides, the European Space Agency (ESA), a consortium of 17 countries, has also sent a spacecraft to moon.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/nic/0061/release11.htm

Re:Indian Flag on moon

[Anonymous Coward]

"With today's (on 8th Nov) successful manoeuvre, "

HA! Fail! Did you see how he spelled "maneuver"?

manoeuvre is the way it was spelt in English..

you're spelling in American ... which is an evolving flavor (flavour) of English...

Re:Indian Flag on moon

[Anonymous Coward]

"With today's (on 8th Nov) successful manoeuvre, "

HA! Fail! Did you see how he spelled "maneuver"?

Well,

"manoeuvre" is British spelling
"maneuver" is American spelling

Indians use British English. So, there is nothing wrong in the spelling. If doubt persists then go and do some googling.

Re:apollo lander module?

[gstoddart]

so did they take pix of the supposed apollo landing site to prove once and for all whether or not the moon landing was fake?

So, I know this is a recurring joke around here on Slashdot ... but you can actually demonstrate this fact by using the Lunar Laser Ranging thingy they installed.

That is, if you're willing to take the time to educate yourself on the hard science behind this.

Cheers

Re:Correct pronunciation?

[bigfatdeal]

Ch as in cheddar
andra as in tundra (except 'r' pronounced like the spanish 'r')
yaan - the long vowel is pronounced like the 'a' in bar (or, even better, like the scandinavian first name "jan")

The stress is on the last syllable - chandrayAn

Re:apollo lander module?

[smooth wombat]

The MythBusters (yeah, yeah) demonstrated this on their Moon Hoax show. It was the last thing they did.

They went to an observatory and had the person show that pointing the laser away from the moon produced no return signal whereas when they pointed the laser at a specific spot on the moon, they did get a signal.

Re:new plot

[Anonymous Coward]

ha..ha..ha... now that is funny!!!

Re:Correct pronunciation?

[xigxag]

If still confused, refer to YouTube (about 7 seconds into the clip, or 25 seconds if you prefer a woman's voice).

Re:How do you pronounce

[kraemate]

OK here goes:
The chand is like chand in chandler.
ra is pronounced "raa"
yaan is with the soft a. think of it as "yarn" but soften out the 'r'

Hope this helps.

Re:apollo lander module?

[shutdown -p now]

Lunokhod 2 reflector array is in the location different from the Apollo ones. The whole point of the experiment is to point the beam at the known location - which coincides with the claimed location of a given Apollo landing - and receive the signal. If you do, then someone or something installed the equipment there, and it couldn't be Lunokhod, because it installed its equipment elsewhere (and you can check where it did that, too).