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Mangalyaan Gets Ready To Enter Mars Orbit
William Robinson (875390) writes India's Mars Orbiter Mission, known as Mangalyaan is now at a distance of just nine million kilometres from the red planet, and is scheduled to enter the orbit of Mars at 7.30 am on September 24. Mangalyaan was launched on 5th November 2013 by ISRO, presently busy planning to reduce the speed of the spacecraft through the process of firing the LAM engine and bring it to 1.6 km/sec, before it is captured by the planet's gravity. Eventually, the mission's official updates page should catch up.
India appears to be the ONE country that has the "ooomph" in terms of the CAN DO spirit
Not only their space launch costs much less than the one from NASA, it costs less than the one from ESA (Europe), from Japan, from Russia and from China !
We should learn from India on how to keep cost down
Again, congratulations are in order for India !!
Because 9 million miles is no more newsworthy than 8 million or 10.
I'm reminded of the old joke:
"What famous event happened in 1732?"
"George Washington was born."
"Very good. Now what famous event happened in 1743?'
"George Washington became 11 years old."
I think there's also a NASA mission set to arrive at Mars on Sept 22nd, a few days before the ISRO one, no?
Hmm... It's only ahead of the comet Siding Spring by about a month. Will it have time/fuel to "duck and cover" by getting to the far side of the planet before the close approach of the comet and the potential of a cometary dust storm that could wreck it? (Contrary to what some people think, it doesn't take much energy to change your orbital position IF you've got time. A simple change of 1 meter/sec from the thrusters will, after one year mean a distance of over 30,000 km. That simplification ignores some orbital dynamics but you get the picture.) Of course Mangalyaan doesn't have a year but it has much greater delta-vee capability, its orbital insertion burn is (I think) 1.6 KM/sec. And maybe it would've been on the far side of the planet anyway.
On the other hand, maybe it's near the comet NOW, or nearer to the comet than any other spacecraft. Perhaps it can take some good close-ups of the comet or at least see it from a different angle. (If it can see a full or partial eclipse of the sun by the comet, scientists may be able to determine the comet's composition or the composition of the comet's coma. It might be able to do it using radio wave occultation from earth.). In any case, it's good that there will be another spacecraft near the comet when it arrives at mars! Too bad the U.S. isn't willing to risk sacrificing one of its older orbiters (I think one has been around mars for about a decade) for a close flyby. (Again, given enough advance planning, a surprisingly small amount of delta-vee would be required to put one of the orbiters on a collision course, especially if gravitational chaotic resonances AKA "the interplanetary highway" were harnessed.)
Too bad we didn't know about this close encounter say a decade ago. We might have been able to send a probe that could've used mars' gravity to slingshot a probe into a matching trajectory with it so that, like the ESA Rosetta probe, we could rendezvous, orbit and land on it!
Well, that novel was extremely relevant to the OP. Thanks for psycho/analyzing the Indian people because we definitely needed it as a response to a scientific post.
According to the docs the lift-off mass is 1337 kg
"They’re kids are cute" ...and could correct your grammar, idiot.
It will not even crash land. It will burn up in entry.
Your MOM is so fat...OK, that's old.
Ezekiel 23:20
when the orbiter phones home, but I'm too tired at the moment to suss it out.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
This must be the Flat Tyre Service (http://cria.co.in/crweb/flat-tyre-service/) honouring the rumoured subscription of cash-strapped NASA.
Considering the damage (http://www.space.com/26472-mars-rover-curiosity-wheel-damage.html) there was no way Cross Roads (http://cria.co.in/crweb/) could wiggle out of it's responsibility.
presently busy planning to reduce the speed of the spacecraft through the process of firing the LAM engine
I'd hope they'd have got all of the planning done before launch, and would instead be getting busy implementing.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
They would go back just like the europeans, other asians, south americans, arabians, and every body else who have colonized this country.
It doesn't matter whether it's relevant to the article, the important thing is that he raised some very good and vital points that need addressing by Indians coming fresh off the boat.
Man, why can't you Indians sort out your own country, instead of multiplying in the west and creating filthy places - I guess that's how you guys feel "at home".
My apartment complex is full of Indians. ItÃ(TM)s a recent phenomenon too but I donÃ(TM)t mind that. In fact they are pretty quiet and donÃ(TM)t commit a lot of crimes. TheyÃ(TM)re kids are cute and well-behaved with two-parent households, something now foreign to most Americans. I also daily interact with Indians at my job but mostly over the phone and via email. TheyÃ(TM)re the developers meaning databases, web and server applications. IÃ(TM)m not sure why they have been typecast into that role. They donÃ(TM)t seem any more suited to it than the people who did it before the advent of the H1B Visa that has them flooding into the country. In fact they do a worse job because their English is generally terrible with a very heavy accent that frustrates Americans beyond belief. IÃ(TM)ve noticed that most IT recruiters are now Indian as well. I just hang out on them and put their emails on a black list. Most of them have no clue what theyÃ(TM)re doing. It may sound wrong but I only want white, Asian or Latino IT recruiters finding jobs for me. Blacks and Indians, probably because of white racism, just donÃ(TM)t have the connections needed or industry experience to make things happen smoothly or even at all.
Indians also tend to speak in the imperative form which irks Americans to no end since that is the form used for giving people commands and we donÃ(TM)t take too kindly to that. Regardless, I do have other issues with Indians and itÃ(TM)s not related to their seeking a better life in another country, which is what bothers whites the most as if foreigners are just supposed to turn down a better way of life to keep Americans happy, insulated and isolated while frustrating the New World OrderÃ(TM)s plan for one world government. Whites never blame other whites for their problems. They prefer to vent on Indians and Mexicans rather than taking up arms against the Jewish hijacking of their government which is an attempt to dilute the gene pool of every race on the planet and thereby make us all easier to control and cull at their whim.
Indians and whites have a unique historical relationship. Whites claim Indo-European heritage but they generally express that as Aryan. The problem with that is Aryan doesnÃ(TM)t mean white. It is only used by white supremacists when they are referring to oneness as a people. The real definition refers only to the shared language of the Indo-European and Indo-Iranian people. IÃ(TM)m starting to think that whites really have nothing to claim of their own other than hatred and fear of everything that is not white. Well.not starting perhaps but continuing.
When you take a look at Indians you will see that besides their skin and eye color they look very much like whites. They have dark straight hair. They have similar body builds and facial features. Their noses and lips are relatively thin most of the time. They tend to be hairy. They are probably directly related to whites genetically if you go far enough back in time. Maybe thatÃ(TM)s why Indians kiss so much white ass when they come America. I thought Uncle Toms like Clarence Thomas and Michael Steele were bad but Indians take white ass-kissing to a whole..nubba.lebba.
What is the converse of an Anglophile? It is hatred of everything black. Most Indians hate blacks but they will not admit it because they are just happy to be in the country. The caste system in India still exists and it is one of the worst apartheid-like systems of oppression in the world. In fact it is so bad that many Hindus choose to convert to Buddhism just rather than live under it. The bottom class, or dalit, have virtually no rights or upward mobility. They are referred to as the untouchables (no not the gangsters) permanently confined to the most menial jobs for their entire lives, including all future generations as well. Anyone from the dalit class attempting to marry up or improve their lot in life is met with extreme resistance up to and including death. Indi
I need to give Indian culture some serious study at some point, both ancient and contemporary. What little I've learned so far has been fascinating. I wouldn't be at all surprised if India surpassed the US in international prominance in a few decades.
Isn't it designed to look for Methane in Mars' atmosphere? And didn't the MSL rover (Curiousity) determine that there is no detectable methane in the air, at least at Gale, right?
I for one wanted to say Thank You for your rant, I loved it!
Accurate indeed.
You probably may not like me either, I'm Muslim but born and raised in UK, but I know _exactly_ what you mean about Indians, because I too have noticed the same thing. And sadly, they're taking over the entire IT department, you could say, multiplying out of control.
I was speaking to my manager about this (he's white), and he was also frustrated why we can only seem to find Indians (who just came fresh off the boat)... where did all the native born people go?!!
What further really annoys me is that instead of finding an Indian mrs in their new Western country, they always insist on going back to India for marriage, and then bringing yet another smelly person back to the west, sigh. :(
Immigration is something that's really bothering us in UK too, particularly with the out-of-control Indians, Paki's, Polish, and Romainian!
Since the immigration influx, I've moved to a quieter area out of the big cities, so more greenery; but as I was driving down in the city and past different places, I noticed that where-ever you have many different cultures mixed together, it creates a dirty town and a broken/poor society. The houses, shops, streets all seems to look run-down, like ghetto's I guess, because immigrants would accept to live in any filthy hole.
Man, I am just so sick of seeing Indians every where.
How did you land in America? You yourself is an immigrant. Read history before you rant!
Who built the rocket and spacecraft? Was it the Indian space agency, or was it built by large aerospace companies for India?
mark "is he suggesting that the govenment, on civil service wages, could do it cheaper?"
Good and vital points? All I see here is stereotype layered with a generous spread of more stereotype.
Speaking of filthy places, Americans should not talk of creating filthy places. You guys are polluting and destroying the rest of the world to keep your hyper-consumption led lifestyle going. You are creating desolation in countries you can't find on the world map and you call others filthy? And believe me,if you find Indians filthy, a large number of Indians find your habits equally filthy, so let us not get there. And to us, you guys have an insufferable twangy accent..
And about sorting out our respective countries, if India is messed up in one way, USA is messed up in other ways. You just like your flavour of messedup-ness better. And we are sorting out our own country, unlike you, who are trying to sort out multiple countries without sorting out your own.
And what is this about multiplying in the West? You guys are desperate to call us or outsource work to us, which you can't or won't do. If the roles were reversed, you would have called it 'market forces' or come up with some equally ridiculous justification. Why these double standards?
And speaking of fresh off the boat, if you are American, your family would have also come fresh off the boat someday. So, why are you giving grief to others who are doing today what your family did a few generations ago?
Are you a black lady?
"I am sick and tired of seeing preggos walking around everywhere. I donÃf(TM)t see the glow in pregnant women. All I see is a bloated female with a new victim in her belly. I know I know.I should relocate (working on it)"
So much hate. I think you should work on killing yourself.
It doesn't matter? Why pick this article to rant about Indians and not talk about the achievement. Looks like u and some others here just cannot handle the fact that India is advancing in technology. Haters will be haters.