10 Incredible Facts About India’s Mars Mission That Will Make You Super Proud

[Kinetic]

You are wrong .

Chinese were not developing on their own ....... They tried to piggy back onto the Ruskies to get the credit .

But the mission failed in earth orbit itself .

lol cheerleading for china also nt working here.

 

[kurup]

lol cheerleading for china also nt working here.

what else can they do ..... They started a space organisation even before ISRO but even today does not have the capability to place a 1kg satellite into the lowest LEO .

BTW , This was the failed chinese attempt ....... more like Russian attempt ....

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[Luca1]

what else can they do ..... They started a space organisation even before ISRO but even today does not have the capability to place a 1kg satellite into the lowest LEO .

BTW , This was the failed chinese attempt ....... more like Russian attempt ....

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You are correct. So China never had tried a Mars mission yet. They were only going to send a probe piggy back on the Russian mission. Their record should be 0-0. 0 success on 0 attempt. Instead 0 success on 1 attempt as that was a Russian mission, not a Chinese mission.

 

[Always Neutral]

10 Incredible Facts About India’s Mars Mission That Will Make You Super Proud

Early in the morning, while most of us were probably in our beds, history was created as India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (M.O.M.) successfully entered the orbit of the red planet. The I.S.R.O. pulled off an incredible feat of frugal engineering and helped us join an elite club of space-faring nations to have accomplished this stellar feat.

The internet has been abuzz and congratulations have been pouring in. Here are a few facts about the mission which every Indian would be proud of.


2. This is, hands down, the most cost effective Mars Mission to have ever been undertaken.
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Comparing it to the movie Gravity is sheer ISRO stupidity. Gravity earned nearly a USD Billion over an investment of USD 100 Million. Sandra Bullock the actress earned USD 50 Million for this role. This Mars mission will earn nothing compared to that in fact the USD 100 million just proves the fact that ISRO managed to overcome the complexities of a Mars orbit. Give USD 100 million tax free money to any space company in Europe and they too with the NASA calculations available on the net will manage it.

 

[illusion8]

Comparing it to the movie Gravity is sheer ISRO stupidity. Gravity earned nearly a USD Billion over an investment of USD 100 Million. Sandra Bullock the actress earned USD 50 Million for this role. This Mars mission will earn nothing compared to that in fact the USD 100 million just proves the fact that ISRO managed to overcome the complexities of a Mars orbit. Give USD 100 million tax free money to any space company in Europe and they too with the NASA calculations available on the net will manage it.

The comparison wasn't by ISRO btw, some western media came out with that analogy.

 

[Kinetic]

what else can they do ..... They started a space organisation even before ISRO but even today does not have the capability to place a 1kg satellite into the lowest LEO .

BTW , This was the failed chinese attempt ....... more like Russian attempt ....

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That because A space mission is nt a weapon that cannot be used sgainst India. So they didnt got it from US or China.

 

[anant_s]

Comparing it to the movie Gravity is sheer ISRO stupidity.

Don't take it figuratively. Even some recent Indian Blockbusters have made close to INR 300 crores compared to the cost of MOM budget of INR 450 crores.

This Mars mission will earn nothing compared to that in fact the USD 100 million

This was never a commercial mission. ISRO had a point to prove (which it has now) that even with limited budgets and technology at its disposal, it can achieve results similar to what its counterparts have done around the globe.

Give USD 100 million tax free money to any space company in Europe and they too with the NASA calculations available on the net will manage it.

for several countries USD 100 M would be peanuts, still they don't do it (or perhaps can't do it).

& a general comment about our Space program. back in late 60s when India embarked upon this space journey, several nations laughed it off. Later as it met success, criticism was raised in form of we not having our priorities right. Then when PSLV and INSAT became success they are now, several countries line up with small satellites of their own as, in its class, Indian space launches are cheapest in the world. We must have done something right somewhere.

ust proves the fact that ISRO managed to overcome the complexities of a Mars orbit.

& yes ISRO doesn't have to overcome any complexes. we were always the underdogs. on the other hand probably some people need to overcome their insecurities about a country like ours achieving what it has.

There's been lots of tech advances in those years

i agree.

i guess you don't know, we are going to join space satellite club too in next year

Thats a news to me. Share the details.

 

[anant_s]

Nope. It's all a big hoax, like the holocaust and Neil Armstrong landing on the moon and the WTC towers being brought down by aircrafts.

BTW I'm curious, what sort of "proof" are you looking for?

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[janon]

Comparing it to the movie Gravity is sheer ISRO stupidity. Gravity earned nearly a USD Billion over an investment of USD 100 Million. Sandra Bullock the actress earned USD 50 Million for this role. This Mars mission will earn nothing compared to that in fact the USD 100 million just proves the fact that ISRO managed to overcome the complexities of a Mars orbit. Give USD 100 million tax free money to any space company in Europe and they too with the NASA calculations available on the net will manage it.

Jesus Harold Christ, you actually took that joke at face value?

BTW it was not ISRO that compared it to the movie. They have better things to do than cracking jokes that some people may take seriously. You know, like sending satellites to orbit planets.

with the NASA calculations available on the net will manage it.

Please tell me what these "NASA calculations available on the net" are?

Janon looks like your next signature is getting ready

Unfortunately, PDF allows only one sig - so I can't accommodate all the stupidities spouted by butthurt boys.

 

[janon]

Well to be fair it was 50 years ago that NASA started sending Mariner stuff to Mars. There's been lots of tech advances in those years

That is very true. And I'll add another point - ISRO had the benefit of learning from all the mistakes committed previously by NASA and other space agencies, and could avoid those. If it wasn't for all the failed and all the succesful attempts by all those pioneers, ISRO would not have been able to succeed on the first try. So yes, credit has to be given to NASA and all other space agencies who previously toiled to extend humanity's reach.

To illustrate how much technology has advanced in the past few decades, I'll give one example - the mission computer (the so called 'Appolo Guidance Computer' or AGC for short) that put Neil Armstrong on the moon had 64 kilobytes of total memory, and 43 kilohertz of processing power. Every pocket calculator and smartphone today has millions of times more computational resources than that. The computer that you are reading this on presumably has a billion times more processing power, and several billion times more memory. The advancement in material sciences has also been staggering, but that is difficult to quantify.

Isaac Newton once wrote (with uncharacterestic humility) that he was able to see further only because he stood on the shoulders of giants. ISRO did the same thing, but the fact is that in doing so, by standing on the shoulders of giants, they were able to see farther than the giants themselves!

 

[kurup]

You are correct. So China never had tried a Mars mission yet. They were only going to send a probe piggy back on the Russian mission. Their record should be 0-0. 0 success on 0 attempt. Instead 0 success on 1 attempt as that was a Russian mission, not a Chinese mission.

They had a mission and it failed . You can spin it any way you want but is not going to change reality .

 

[Luca1]

They had a mission and it failed . You can spin it any way you want but is not going to change reality .

They haven't even tried a Mars mission as its a Russian mission. So even if the Russian succeeded, its a Russian success, not Chinese success.

 

[dray]

I am not proud of it

Chal be!! Be proud or RAW will cut your Puja bonuses.

 

[janon]

As expected, Pakistan tests Nasr.
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[BDforever]

Chal be!! Be proud or RAW will cut your Puja bonuses.

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