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There has never been any substantial benefit to mankind from these expensive 'expeditions' and will not be.
Gullible people just get too much excited from these kind of news for nothing. Just because some other people want to make money and keep their useless business going.
Plain and simple waste of human resources and lives.
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A heck of an achievement by India.. beyond doubt. After all previous satellites and experiments, failed or successful, they are making a history here. That's gona make huge impact everywhere, just like in 60s when first US mission landed on moon.
And its definitely (repeat) definitely a game changer..
Give compliment when its due.. Congratulations India!
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inshallah will post some later today.
meanwhile have your share of mars
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oos bechaaray ke paas angoor hain nee nahi. Wo bair khaa ke guzaara ker rahaa hai
lol. Thanks for reminding me what I said to RV in "Lounge" long time ago Bravo! :D
Becharay woh hotay hain jo har aisee khabar par uchal jaate hain. :)
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A heck of an achievement by India.. beyond doubt. After all previous satellites and experiments, failed or successful, they are making a history here. That's gona make huge impact everywhere, just like in 60s when first US mission landed on moon.
And its definitely (repeat) definitely a game changer..
Give compliment when its due.. Congratulations India!
yes, Sid! if not for space technology, we wouldn't have been enjoying so many luxuries in life in the form of modern technology.
we gave the world "ZERO" without which no space program would have been a reality.
some people devoid of any intelligence believe that going to the moon was fake and that was no good to civilization. pathetic! :)
congratulations India on one of the biggest achievements.
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You do know and I know very well you will fail. 
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yes, Sid! if not for space technology, we wouldn't have been enjoying so many luxuries in life in the form of modern technology.
we gave the world "ZERO" without which no space program would have been a reality.
some people devoid of any intelligence believe that going to the moon was fake and that was no good to civilization. pathetic! :)
congratulations India on one of the biggest achievements.
Message delivered. :)
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Idiot and retarded moderators and channel managers love you for posting Urdu words and their meaning and poetry. Fine.
I am not impressed by your Urdu language authority. Never was, never will be.
i've reported you on the post in which you clearly used abusive language and deliberately edited it quickly.
your allegations are baseless and i never asked you to be impressed by my Urdu skills. i never claimed to be an expert or Urdu-daaN...it's your statement which has no truth to it.
i never respond to your posts knowing that you habitually engage everyone on meaningless arguments and you argue for the sake of argument and i refise to do that so...
...good bye Mr. Diwana.
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Message delivered. :)
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It seems we need to send some `people' as well away to Mars.
Deewanaa Huaa Baadal
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** INDIA TRIUMPHANT **
BBC News - Mangalyaan: India’s race for space success
ndia’s maiden mission to Mars, the Mangalyaan, has arrived in orbit after a 300-day marathon covering over 670 million kilometres (420 million miles). Science writer Pallava Bagla traced its journey as it neared the Red Planet. On the morning of 24 September, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) slowed down the spacecraft sufficiently so it could be caught in the orbit of Mars.
“India will become the first Asian country to have achieved this and if it happens in the maiden attempt itself, India could become the first country in the world to have reached distant Mars on its own steam in the first attempt,” said Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan as it approached.
Both Russia and the US failed in their maiden attempts. The first Chinese mission to Mars, called Yinghuo-1, failed in 2011 alongside the Russian Phobos-Grunt mission with which it was launched. Earlier in 1998, the Japanese mission to Mars ran out of fuel and was lost.
Undoubtedly, India - a late starter - is way ahead of its Asian rivals in trying to get to the Red Planet.
“We are really not racing with anyone, but with ourselves to reach the next level of excellence,” said Mr Radhakrishnan.
‘Pink of health’ India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) - an indigenously made unmanned robotic mission weighing 1,350kg (2,976lb) - was launched from the rocket port at Sriharikota on the coast of the Bay of Bengal on a balmy afternoon on 5 November last year.
Since then, the mission “has been in the pink of health”, says Isro, and has been cruising at breakneck speed to reach close to Mars, half-way around the Sun.
The health of Mangalyaan is monitored from Isro’s Mars mission control complex in Bangalore
The 4.5bn rupee ($74m; £45m) mission is, as Mr Radhakrishnan says, “the cheapest inter-planetary mission ever to be undertaken by the world”.
On his visit to India’s rocket port on 30 June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “The [making of the] Hollywood movie Gravity cost more than our Mars mission - this is a great achievement.”
India’s low-cost and quick turnaround satellite mission has been attracting a lot of global attention from the scientific community that seeks to better understand the mysterious Mars.
On the morning of 24 September Indian time, Isro re-oriented Mangalyaan and fired its on-board rocket motor for about 24 minutes to slow the spacecraft.
It was a very tricky operation - if it did not slow down sufficiently, it would have missed being caught by the gravity of Mars and the mission could have be lost in outer space; but if the rocket engine had fired more than required it could have slowed the Mangalyaan so much that it risked crashing down on to the red soil of Mars.
Since 1960, there have been 51 global missions to Mars and the overall success rate stands at 42% so the odds were loaded against the Indian Martian entry.
M Annadurai, head of the Indian Mars mission, said he was “confident that the laws of physics will favour India and the country could have its first robotic Martian baby soon”.
‘Delusional dream?’ Isro dubs the mission a “technology demonstrator”, essentially showcasing to the world that India is no longer a country of snake charmers but a high-tech hub that has developed its technology against the odds and stringent sanctions.
The mission also makes a big global geo-political statement ahead of Mr Modi’s imminent visit to the US.
In its six-month life, the mission will study the atmosphere of Mars and search for methane gas while asking that eternal question that has dogged humanity: “Are we alone in the universe?”
Within hours of its arrival in the orbit, the spacecraft is expected to relay the first images taken by an Indian eye of the Red Planet and help decipher why and how Mars lost its liquid water.
These are important questions essential for the long-term survival of human beings on Earth.
In the sprint for the Martian marathon, India has shown its technological capability and resilience to undertake arduous inter-planetary journeys.
Many, however, say this bid to reach Mars is a “delusional dream” of India seeking super-power status since 400 million Indians still live without electricity and 600 million people still do not have access to toilets.
However, in real terms, the Mangalyaan has cost India just about four rupees (seven cents; four pence) per person - which is chicken feed for a country of 1.2 billion people.
India sees the Mars mission as an opportunity to beat its regional rival China in reaching the planet, and with destination Mars within touching distance, it may after all meet that target.
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News from across the border.
India celebrates as maiden Mars mission reaches orbit - World - DAWN.COM
NEW DELHI: India’s Mars Orbiter Mission on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around the Red Planet on its first attempt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced.
“India has successfully reached Mars. Congratulations to all, to the entire country… history has been created today,” Modi said from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s mission control in south India from where the mission was televised live nationwide.
The success of the mission— named Mangalyaan (Mars-craft) — after its 10-month journey was touted by Modi as a showcase for the country’s home-grown and low-cost space technology.
“I have said it in the past too, the amount our scientists have spent on this mission is even less than what they spend in making Hollywood movies,” he said in his televised addressed to the mission scientists.
At just $74 million, the mission is less than the estimated $100 million budget of the sci-fi blockbuster Gravity.
Read more: India hails rocket ‘cheaper than Hollywood film Gravity’](http://www.dawn.com/news/1116107)
India’s successful mission to the Red Planet sees it join an elite club that includes United States, Russia and Europe.
The mission plans to study the planet’s surface and scan its atmosphere for methane, which could provide evidence of some sort of life form.
The probe is expected to circle Mars for six months, about 500 kilometres (310 miles) from its surface. Its scientific instruments will collect data and send it back to Earth.
“We have prevailed, not everyone gets success in their missions… we got it in our very first attempt. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) put out this spacecraft in a record time of only three years, every Indian is proud of you,” Modi said.
Experts say the mission’s main aim is to showcase India’s budget space technology and hopefully snatch a bigger share of the $300-billion global space market.
The mission’s cost is just a fraction of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft which successfully began orbiting the fourth planet from the sun on Sunday.
India has so far launched 40 satellites for foreign nations, since kickstarting its space programme five decades ago. But China launches bigger satellites.
Critics of the programme say a country that struggles to feed its people adequately and where roughly half have no toilets should not be splurging on space travel.
[HR][/HR] Mars missions: Successes and failures [HR][/HR] Getting a spacecraft to orbit Mars is a complex mission that few countries have attempted, and even fewer have achieved.
The former Soviet Union made the world’s first attempt in 1960, but the satellite didn’t get far from Earth.
The United States had the first successful mission four years later, when a flyby satellite, Mariner 4, beamed 21 images of the red planet’s surface back to Earth.
Since then, more than half of the 41 attempts have failed for myriad reasons including rocket malfunction, radio failure, fuel troubles and missed landings.
Here is a breakdown of successful and failed attempts:
US: 15 successful attempts, 4 failures
USSR: 2 successful attempts, 14 failures
Russia: 2 failures
European Space Agency: 1 success
Japan: 1 failure
India: 1 success
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Sorry,Diwana but India’s Mars mission is the most cost effective and the cheapest of all Mars missions. It is much cheaper than HOLLYWOOD film industry that worth 100’s of Crores. :).We have also proved the rest of the world that mission costs can be curtailed down. .It cost us just 73 Million US $ .Much much cheaper than Hollywood films.
India hails rocket ‘cheaper than Hollywood film Gravity’ - World - DAWN.COM
**BANGALORE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed India's low-cost space technology on Monday, saying a rocket which launched four foreign satellites into orbit had cost less to make than the Hollywood film “Gravity.**
“India’s domestically-produced Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) blasted off Monday morning from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota, carrying satellites from France, Germany, Canada and Singapore.
“India has the potential to be the launch service provider of the world and must work towards this goal,” Modi said from the site one month after coming to power at the head of a right-wing government.
Satellite launch industry revenues totalled $2.2 billion in 2012, according to the US Satellite Industry Association, and India is keen to expand its modest share of this market as a low-cost provider.
“I have heard about the film Gravity. I am told the cost of sending an Indian rocket to space is less than the money invested in making the Hollywood movie,” Modi added.
The budget of the British-American 3D sci-fi thriller, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, was about $100 million, according to industry website IMDb.
Last year, India launched a bid to become the first Asian nation to reach Mars with a mission whose price tag was the envy of space programmes world-wide.
The total cost at 4.5 billion rupees ($73 million) was less than a sixth of the $455 million earmarked for a Mars probe launched shortly afterwards by US space agency NASA.
Experts say the secret is India’s ability to copy and adapt existing space technology for its own needs, and the abundance of highly-skilled engineers who earn a fraction of their foreign counterparts’ wages.
Modi said the country must be proud of its space programme, developed in the face of “great international pressure and hurdles”.
Western sanctions on India after the nation staged a nuclear weapons test in 1974 gave a major thrust to the space programme because New Delhi needed to develop its own missile technology.
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Diwana
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No I am not. :)
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Then clearly you are jealous. Just because you don't understand what the benefits of a space program is, does not mean it is a waste of time and money. Today the space launch market is about $350 billion and India just made the case for a chunk of it. They will more than recover $74 million on this project even if they manage to get 1% of that market. In the process, they will hone their skills in missile development. Once that money starts flowing, even with corrupt politicians, there is bound to be change for the rest of the country.
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Then clearly you are jealous. Just because you don't understand what the benefits of a space program is, does not mean it is a waste of time and money. Today the space launch market is about $350 billion **and India just made the case for a chunk of it. **They will more than recover $74 million on this project even if they manage to get 1% of that market. In the process, they will hone their skills in missile development. Once that money starts flowing, even with corrupt politicians, there is bound to be change for the rest of the country.
And benefit to mankind?
Where did that go?
I do like your posts by the way. But here you seem to have gone with the wrongful but popular belief. :)
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And benefit to mankind?
Where did that go?
I do like your posts by the way. But here you seem to have gone with the wrongful but popular belief. :)
Read the part about 'rest of the country'. For poor countries like India, Pakistan etc. the way to become prosperous is to create more ways of making money. For China in the 90s, it was manufacturing. For Taiwan and Japan in 80s it was electronics. For India it is high technology & services. It will benefit mankind, unless you think that people in India are not part of mankind.
Also, I only made the financial case for it. Am sure one can make a religious one ( lets wait for Bao Bihari's response on it ) or even a scientific/technological one.
Explorations in general are the biggest service to mankind, be it space, sea, or land. The knowledge that is gathered from such explorations, especially space, becomes available to whole scientific community. Space exploration helps us understand our own origin that would become beneficial to save humanity in the future.
I am extremely proud of India for its mars mission initiative.
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