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Indian Mars Mission Has Completed 95% of Its Journey Without a Hitch
First time accepted submitter rinka writes India's Mars Orbiter Mission, known as Mangalyaan, has made some progress since we last discussed it. The mission is on target and has completed 95% of its journey. It will reach its destination before the end of the month. Scientists will undertake a "challenging task" on September 24 when they will restart the onboard liquid engine, which has been in sleep mode for nearly ten months, for a critical maneuver of the spacecraft.
Its the last few feet that count
or is that meters
If you combine the populations of India and China, isn't it something like seven times the population of the United States? Yet, we're having more of an effect on their culture than they are having on us. What does that tell you, friend?
I'm no astrophysicist or aeronautical engineer, but it seems to me that at least 99.9% of any space vehicle's journey to any other planet in our star system is going to be uneventful and easy to manage; it's the end of the journey that's going to pose possible difficulties. The paper ball you toss at the trash can flies through the air uneventfully -- but whether or not you get it in the can, have it bounce off the rim, or miss the can entirely at the end of it's flight is something else entirely.
Not that I'm trash-talking Indian engineering or scientific ability. I work with enough Indian engineers to know better than that. Now if they could just learn to solder worth a damn. XD
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Do Indian businessmen wear clothes of European origin in design, or do American and European businessmen wear clothes of Indian origin in design? That's piece of superstrate culture right there.
Ezekiel 23:20
I don't understand why most Americans on this site have such an inferiority complex. For the fuck's sake, USA is the front-runner in the space technology. If India tries to achieve a small feet in space tech, why does it bother these people so much? Scientists at NASA would be excited seeing some other agency achieve any such feet using a different method. What I am seeing is that, the people who actually contribute nothing in the field but brag around saying 'my country' did this only have this kind of opinion.
If you are seeing excited Indians, no need to feel jealous, let them be, you don't need to come and bash India. Indians are not bashing US when NASA achieves it's milestones.
That's because in the 1940s everyone else had basically blown each others countries to smithereens. India is competing in a stable non-war torn world. In the 1940s the US was one of the few countries whose homeland was largely unscathed by the war.
It's easy to do well when you're the least badly crippled country going than it is to when you're one of the most crippled on the world stage.