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India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup
New submitter rahultyagi writes "After running into some problems in its fourth orbit-raising maneuver two days ago, Mangalyaan (India's Mars Orbiter Mission) seems to be back on track now. A supplementary burn lasting ~304 seconds was completed today, raising the apogee of MOM to 118,642 km — the intended apogee after the original maneuver. After the glitch two days ago, ISRO again seems to be on track to become the first entity to have a successful Mars mission on its first attempt. Though, of course, there are quite a few things that might still go wrong before this can be called a successful mission. Let's all hope that a year from now, we are all celebrating the entry of another nation into the small club capable of successful interplanetary missions."
It's not racism to cry USA number 1 and hope other countries fail... (just nationalistic jingoism)
And why not - America's German scientists did a better job laying the foundations of space flight than Russia's German scientists did.
That is actually quite interesting. So, do they still have pitch for "yes" as well?
Only Slashdot could move from "casual racism" to "casual aerodynamicism". I am impressed.
They didn't do everything. They did only the needful.