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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by goku12 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:50AM (#37235832)
A look at the previous lunar missions [1] should give an idea. There have been 7 lander missions since 1976 (not including impactors):

- 3 by China: All success

- 1 by Japan (along with a rover from UAE): Failed

- 1 by Israel: Failed

- 1 by Russia: Failed

- 2 by India: Previous one failed. This one succeeded

I can see why the entire world would be excited by something like this. I hope that there will be routine landings by different players and that the landing guidance would be perfected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon#M...

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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by FpUser on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @07:00PM (#37243025)
why 1976 is a starting point? Why not counting successful Lunokhod rover missions? Looks like you're trying to to fit facts to narrative.
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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by goku12 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:17PM (#37243998)
There was a fervent space race before that. Do you believe that anybody forgot about the countless interplanetary missions before that? Every time someone tries to collect data points, someone like you will start accusing vested interests rather than argue the reasons behind the data.
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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by Pidaymou on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @09:53AM (#37322186)
Actually 3 by India.

1- was an orbiter: Success

2- Orbiter+ lander&rover: Partial success, orbiter succeed but lander crashed.

3- Lander&rover: Succesful.

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