Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
by NikolaeVarius on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:30AM
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So the first try failed?
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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
by vishnugupta on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:08AM
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The countdown timer was stopped 1hr before the launch when an anomaly was detected. I suppose by some measure it could be considered as "first attempt failure".
The more remarkable thing though is they un-fueled the launch vehicle, fixed the issue, made it launch worthy, and launched it in just under one week.
I can't recall a similar recovery in such a short period of time for a project of such magnitude.
Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
by xioxox on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:44AM
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It's very impressive. The Russians also fixed the insulation on their Proton rocket carrying Spektr-RG with some glue and launched a day later! They had to wait a month after the previous problem, however, which required a battery replacement: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spektr-rg-launch.html
Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
by manojlds on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:49AM
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Also, it was aborted "due to abundance of caution."
Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
by z3phyr on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:51AM
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It could only fail if it was attempted.
Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
by NikolaeVarius on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:03AM
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It was attempted. It failed due to a technical issue requiring abort of launch.