India’s Chandrayaan-3 to Attempt Lunar Landing

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 to Attempt Lunar Landing

India will make it's second attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon today (23rd August 2023).

ISRO (the Indian Space Research Organisation) is providing a live stream of the event, beginning at around 12:50 BST (07:50 EDT).

 

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[bmk1245]

Landed!

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India has followed the Soviet Union, USA and China as only the 4th nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon. 

 

Congratulations ISRO.

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[Cho Jinn]

Get dat He-3.

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23 minutes ago, Cho Jinn said:

Get dat He-3.

Helium-3 is a red herring. It will only be useful when we have commercial nuclear fusion, which is decades away, and even then only in some forms of fusion reactor. It's a great excuse for exploiting lunar resources in science fiction, but at the moment, in science fact, not so much.

The reason the south polar region of the moon is of so much interest is because there is a far more valuable and useful resource there... water ice.

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2 hours ago, Cho Jinn said:

Get dat He-3.

Here is an article, from the European Space Agency, on Lunar Helium-3 mining: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Space_for_Earth/Energy/Helium-3_mining_on_the_lunar_surface

 

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[+Hammerclaw]

India has an impressive Space Program.

[Alchopwn]

India making Russia look crap again.

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55 minutes ago, Alchopwn said:

India making Russia look crap again.

How exactly?

India has landed a spacecraft on the Moon at the second attempt. Russia has a failure with their Luna-25 spacecraft having successfully manage the feat seven times in the past (including being the first nation to achieve a lunar soft landing in 1966). If that is making Russia look. "crap" then Japan and Israel most also be considered crap as they have both attempted, and failed, to land a spacecraft on the Moon. The USA hasn't even attempted the feat since 1972.

Using your logic (and I use the word logic incorrectly where your statement is concerned) China is making everyone look "crap" as they have now achieved sucessful lunar landings three times and are the only nation with a 100% success rate).

Hammerclaw is correct, India does have an impressive space programme, but it has not yet achieved a fraction of Russia's

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17 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

How exactly?

India has landed a spacecraft on the Moon at the second attempt. Russia has a failure with their Luna-25 spacecraft having successfully manage the feat seven times in the past (including being the first nation to achieve a lunar soft landing in 1966). If that is making Russia look. "crap" then Japan and Israel most also be considered crap as they have both attempted, and failed, to land a spacecraft on the Moon. The USA hasn't even attempted the feat since 1972.

Using your logic (and I use the word logic incorrectly where your statement is concerned) China is making everyone look "crap" as they have now achieved sucessful lunar landings three times and are the only nation with a 100% success rate).

Hammerclaw is correct, India does have an impressive space programme, but it has not yet achieved a fraction of Russia's

Who cares about sending yet another robot to the Moon?  The USA is preparing to send a manned mission to Mars.

Edited September 1 by Alchopwn

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