Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned spacecraft mission to moon, successfully entered lunar orbit on November 8. The spacecraft fired its engines to reduce velocity and enable the Moon's gravity to capture it; engines were fired for 817 seconds when Chandrayaan-1 was about 500 km away from the moon. Next up for the spacecraft will be to reduce the height of its lunar orbit to about 100 km.
Can we expect hi-res images from this excursion?
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(with apologies to intense)
Today's scramble...
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I followed some other links and found an animation on the future of Indian travels to the Moon. They project landing humans in 2020. I don't get it. Shouldn't a flight to the moon be easy by now? I mean we landed a couple of guys there about 40 years ago. Hasn't technology advanced enough if 40 years to make another moon walk a walk in the park?
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Stan--
ReplyDeleteWhen Apollo went "offline" NASA effectively scrapped its lunar mission infrastructure, leaving us with the bizarre task of reinventing the proverbial wheel.
I know that they scrapped moon missions, but overall the technology should be so much more advanced.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe this is not true. Maybe there has been no real quantum leap.
I remember as a kid in about 1964 I went from N.Y. to Israel. The flight took about 10 hours. Now, with our great advancement in technology the flight can be done in about 10 hours.
Stan