Nothing to worry about here, they’ll probably go at night.
India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
Submitted 9 months ago by reclipse@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
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notdoingshittoday@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ivanafterall@kbin.social 9 months ago
Doesn't that just increase the number of stars they need to dodge?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s why they choose a cloudy night
ripcord@kbin.social 9 months ago
This one will be tougher to land on.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Very interesting. Solar probes and low budgets usually don’t go together. That’s a lot of deceleration.
SeabassDan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I usually only thought about slingshotting to speed up, I’d never considered slowing down past that one scene in The Martian. Can you elaborate further?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
There are 2 ways to go sunward. You can shed speed to reduce orbital distance, but 30 km/s is a lot of velocity to change. Or you use another body (often antisunward) and a slingshot to put the craft in a highly eccentric orbit that, at times, is near the sun - so you have many proximal destinations you have to hit without error to meet your course. A mars transfer is easier but you want to hit certain proximity windows.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 months ago
From my knowledge in KSP, in a nutshell if you pass by a large gravitational mass on one side you’ll speed up, but if you pass on the other side you’ll slow down. Throw in an engine burn across the periapse (closest point) and you’ll amplify that much more.
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Wonderful. I hear the weather there is always sunny.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The latest mission in India’s ambitious space program has blasted off on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country’s successful unmanned moon landing.
“Launch successful, all normal,” an Indian Space Research Organisation official announced from mission control as the vessel made its way to the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Raychaudhury said the mission probe would study coronal mass ejections, a periodic phenomenon that sees huge discharges of plasma and magnetic energy from the sun’s atmosphere.
Aditya is travelling on the ISRO-designed, 320-tonne PSLV XL rocket that has been a mainstay of the Indian space program, powering earlier launches to the moon and Mars.
The South Asian nation has a comparatively low-budget space program, but one that has grown considerably in size and momentum since it first sent a probe to orbit the moon in 2008.
Experts say India can keep costs low by copying and adapting existing technology, and thanks to an abundance of highly skilled engineers who earn a fraction of their foreign counterparts’ wages.
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doublejay1999@lemmy.world 9 months ago
a nice juicy fuck you to the 150,000,000 people living on £2 a day
kava@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not like they could have taken this money and made any significant impact on the problem. Plus space programs have indirect long term benefits that are hard to calculate.
More scientists and high tech industries is a good thing for a country.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There are too many poor people so it’s not worth bothering ?
You could feed and clothes tens of millions of people with India’s space budget - and educate them as rocket scientists if you wanted .
Space exploration is largely a folly, while people are hungry .
spiderman@ani.social 9 months ago
There are corrupt politicians and businessmen who steal money from the poor and spend it on stupid shit that is definitely higher than ISRO’s budget and yet ISRO’s budget is the only thing that we need to shit about.
AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world 9 months ago
keep seething .
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 9 months ago
After the sun, we go to Sagittarius A*
ivanafterall@kbin.social 9 months ago
At this pace, India will have the observable universe perfectly charted by year's end.
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No rest until a probe can shake Vishnu’s hand(s)
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Going for the tech victory, classic
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Do you want to kill Cillian Murphy? Because this is how you kill Cillian Murphy.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Man the first two acts of that movie are one of the best scifi stories I’ve ever seen and the third act of that movie is one of the worst slasher films I’ve ever seen
yoz@aussie.zone 9 months ago
SpaceX and Daddy Elon isn’t happy.
db2@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
He’s incapable of being happy. That’s why he keeps taking other people’s toys and breaking them.
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 9 months ago
I’d be happy to have him board the rocket to the Sun.
TheBlue22@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yo, don’t land on that one though /s
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was thinking the same. I wanted to see how long it was going to take to get there, then saw in the article it says it is actually only traveling 1% of the distance from the earth to the sun to offset earth’s gravitational pull with the suns and then create an orbit around the Sun. It doesn’t say how long the travel time was unless I missed it.
Should create a cool vantage point for photos I imagine
TheBlue22@lemmy.world 9 months ago
On one hand, calling that a mission to the sun is a bit… optimistic, on the other, travelling to the sun (and in the same way to Mercury and Venus) is much harder than the other way around.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They don’t rest on their laurels, do they?
zoe@lemm.ee 9 months ago
busy month huh
EqMinMax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
yoppa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pretty insane to watch that India is taking over spacex and NASA.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The day that India masters recoverable, or self-landing boosters, its over for SpaceX.
Absolutemehperson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ITT: Triggered americans.
philoneous@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wonder if there’s beer on the sun.
DeanFogg@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Whats the goal?
cloud@lazysoci.al 9 months ago
Still waiting for them to launch a mission to get rid of the caste system
puppy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If the US can go to space while issuing drone strikes on civilians, if Russia can go to space while invading countries, I don’t see why India can go to space while still being backwards about the caste system. Also it’s not like the government endorses the cast system, unlike the aforementioned examples.
lasagna@programming.dev 9 months ago
Whataboutism bs. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
DSX@lemm.ee 9 months ago
How is that related to the space mission? Or are we trying to make this look like a Reddit comment section now?
Jocker@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Even though I couldn’t find any connection between a space mission to sun and casteism, I could assure you friend the latter is much difficult. That’s why countries still struggle with casteism or racism or sexism or some other -ism, but we shouldn’t let it hold us back from the technical and scientific advancements. In fact one could argue building a science oriented society is the way to eradicate these issues.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I love it when people act like America doesn’t have a fucking caste system. As though there weren’t millions of Americans who voted for a rich guy who planned to build a wall to keep the “illegals” out of the country. And there wasn’t a massive lobbyist effort but multi billion dollar companies and oligarchs to kill unemployment benefits in order to push people back into shitty service jobs that pay peanuts.
robbotlove@lemmy.world 9 months ago
whatever or whoever they land on the sun will no longer be in any system, so maybe this is the first step?
ivanafterall@kbin.social 9 months ago
I haven't followed this mission. It's not possible they're launching lower-caste people into the sun?
i_b_i_r@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LOL. This is clearly how to tell
“I’m jealous of another country achieving something better than my country”
without actually telling
“I’m jealous of another country achieving something better than my country”
cloud@lazysoci.al 9 months ago
I’ll be jealous of india once they get rid of all their billionares and feed the poor instead
electrogamerman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lol, im sorry but there’s nothing to be jealous of India. Im happy they accomplished the landing in the moon, but they have a lot problems that they need to solve in their country.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
HHGTG covered this. They’ll simply put the lower classes on a space ark
AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world 9 months ago
keep waiting bitch
RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 9 months ago
👀