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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by carlsborg on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:22AM (#20496937)
Great news on the launch. But it ain't over till the land rover starts transmitting, so to speak. This will orbit earth for a bit till the moon snags it into its own orbit, and then it lands on the moon in September.
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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by bhaavan on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:25AM (#20496960)
Yes, Chandrayaan-1 already crash landed on moon once. The new part of this mission is soft landing for a rover, which will only happen in early September.
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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by carlsborg on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:30AM (#20496981)
Chandrayaan-1 operated for 312 days and seven years later it was found still circling the moon [1]. The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) crash-landed on the moon, possibly by design.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/10/health/nasa-chandrayaan-s...

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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by Rooster61 on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:01AM (#20498025)
Geez, when they said it wasn't a direct transfer, they weren't kidding. They must be milking the the Oberth effect for everything it's worth if it will take a month+ to get the payload there.
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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by switchb4 on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:46AM (#20498445)
Do you want to be in the payload? We can get you there really fast. Just strap on a giant booster to your back. Direct transfer
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