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India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon
yaksha writes to tell us that the Indian Space probe, Chandrayaan, has become only the fourth nation to land a probe on the Moon. The 35-kg Moon Impact Probe touched down in what officials are describing as a "perfect operation." "Developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapuram, the primary objective of MIP is to demonstrate the technologies required for landing a probe at the desired location on the moon. The probe will help qualify some of the technologies related to future soft landing missions. This apart, scientific exploration of the moon at close distance is also intended using MIP."
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapuram
Run away, they're Klingons!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Thank you! Come again!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Read more carefully. India might have a population of 1.15 billion, but the probe itself does not.
They didn't wash their hands when building the probe.
They want to talk about all the shiny neat new tech stuff, but they'll mod you down for pointing out that the money was a waste and could have been spent somewhere else. If I had the points, I would have modded you up.
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