MOM: CHEAP Mars ship got it right first time. Nice one, India India has become the first nation to achieve a successful insertion to Mars orbit on its first attempt, after an epic 10-month trek by its cunning Mangalyaan (aka Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM) spacecraft. The mission that marked India as a genuine deep-space power is also a miracle of low-cost space exploration, setting the …
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That's a given. I'm expecting 40% of the comments on this article to be in that vein, if past comment threads are any guide. Simple, unalloyed compliments for a noteworthy technical accomplishment seem to be as difficult for many commenters here as said achievement was for the ISRO.
- 0 million : UK aid to India (2015, maybe)
- 22 million : luxury Yacht
- 26 million : burning man (2013)
- 40 million : Katie price wealth (reality tv)
- 60 million : low end private jet
- 65 million : Kim Kardashian wealth (reality tv)
- 74 million : Mars attempt India // Not just cheap labour but also the method.
- 110 million : London police budget
- 110 million : Sachin Tendulkar networth (cricket player)
- 140 million : (In)famous Gareth Bale transfer to Real Madrid.
- 175 million: Hollywood blockbuster cost
- 210 million: India Space Agency revenues // Its not just willy waving.
- 236 million: Trump Golf Course
- 270 million: Germany homeopathy market
- 350 million: A Boeing jet.
- 450 million: UK aid to India (2013)
- 500 million: India space budget (2013)
- 600 million : Bono networth
- 650 million: Burj-al-Arab
- 1,000 million : India Cricket revenue
- 1,500 million : Canada winter olympics
- 1,900 million : Commonwealth games India // Hmmm....
- 2,470 million: Mars Rover
- 8 billion: BBC revenues.
- 13 billion: TCS revenue (IT outsourcing)
- 14 billion: London Olympic games.
- 16 billion: India Education/yr
- 16 billion: Lakshmi Mittal (Richest Londoner)
- 19 billion: India food subsidy budget
- 21 billion: Mukesh Ambani (Richest Indian)
- 34 billion: South Korea Defense budget/yr
- 38 billion: India Defense /yr
- 68 billion: India Tech exports
- 160 billion: Worldwide space market. // Prize
- 640 billion: US defense budget/yr
- 1,700 billion: India GDP/yr
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Complied this as a result of a debate during intial MoM launch, but never posted it. Posting here with some updates.. sources for all data is internet, so take them with a pinch of salt.
As far as the meaning of the aid goes, it's simply a way for nations to lubricate future trades and relations. Unless you are paying for a major portion of a nation's budget, you have no say on how they run their country (ie based on the aid). Think of it as 100 quid that your rich neighbour puts in your birthday envelop. Maybe he hopes to boink your mama in future, but that doesn't allow him to question how your house is run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission#Payload
Here's what they got for $74 million
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"Either labor in India is soooooooo cheap or the others are soooooooo corrupt...or both."
There are other factors, like inefficiency.
However, it comes down to Indian labor being inexpensive. When most of your supply chain from engineers down to riveters is earning a pittance, then the parts are cheap. A Western nation aerospace company is going to be tapping into a huge chain of contractors and subcontractors where every company bills at about $100 per labor-hour.
Al -gebra is Indian stuff repackaged by Arabs
They may have invented place number notation to, indicating the lack of a power of ten which became the Zero
Read from " One to Zero"
Here are the previous posts about poverty, grants, space
""They may have invented place number notation to, indicating the lack of a power of ten which became the Zero
More relevant in this regard is that the optimal rocket nozzle shape (what most people call a "bell") is actually known as a "Rao" nozzle, after the Indian who invented it.
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Could somebody clarify what's meant with the "first nation on first go" comment?
Do they mean that the managed a successful mission to Mars without having a few probes go boom or disappear into deep space? Or have all other successful missions had to do a few loops before successful orbital insertion?
I assume it's the former, would just like clarification from those who know these things better.
They mean most space agencies have an unsuccessful Mars mission before they have a successful one. Only 51% of all missions aiming for Mars have made it.
I would like to point out that the first Mars Probe sent by the ESA (Mars Express) did make it and is still in orbit, although i technically they aren't a nation so their statement is correct.
Their very first probe made it to Mars to do science. That's pretty damn impressive, considering how hard it is.
As opposed to Beagle 2, which was A) dropped off by ESA, B) never heard from again, and C) Britain's not tried again.
Or Mars 1960A, Mars 1960B, Sputnik 22, Mars 1, Sputnik 24, Zond 2, Mars 1969A, Mars 1969B, Kosmos 419, and Mars 2, which were the first 10 Soviet attempts. Mars 3 was the first successful landing and returned science.
Or Mariner 3, which was the first American attempt. Mariner 4 was a successful flyby and returned science.
For anyone playing Kerbal Space Program, you know the point of the missions are returning science!
Welcome, India.
And now to show others how easy IT is whenever Commanding Creative Cyber Control doesn't upset and deny, degrade, disrupt and appears ignorantly and primitively designed to seek to dominate and/or destroy the natives or is Project Mangalyaan not an Advanced IntelAIgently Designed Enterprise for Dark Web Masters Tripping the Light Fantastic and Truly Monumental?
There be Changed Days and Changed Ways and Means with Memes for EMPowering Zeroday Vulnerabilities which Crash Systemically Corrupt and Perverse SCADA Operating Systems.
Quick nurse I need another dried frog pill. I'm starting to understand amanfromMars
There be Changed Days and Changed Ways and Means with Memes for EMPowering Zeroday Vulnerabilities which Crash Systemically Corrupt and Perverse SCADA Operating Systems.
Told you so ......http://www.wired.com/2014/09/kevin-mitnick-selling-zero-day-exploits/ .... and Kevin Mitnick is late to the party and no more than a wannabe gate-crasher/free-loader? Leopards and spots and all that jazz.
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