Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling

Re:Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 25, 2014 @10:56AM (#8367493)

> with satellites designed to be launched infrequently with long design lives

That's good and let's hope it doesn't change soon. We're already risking Kessler syndrome[0], and allowing any poor schmuck to launch throwaway satellites as a way to earn money is a huge, global tragedy of commons waiting to happen.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

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Re:Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling by nickik on Thursday September 25, 2014 @11:37AM (#8367678)

Nowdays you can just launch anything, you have to prove that befor it dies you can fly it out to another orbit or burn it.

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Re:Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 25, 2014 @12:04PM (#8367847)

But it still requires enough money that people won't be launching spacecraft equivalents of leaflets, i.e. worthless trash that is an artefact of fierce competition.

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