Watch India Try Soft Lunar Landing - Live

[89th]

Impressive. Love how it "hovered" for a bit there at 0 velocity before it touched down. No pics/videos yet just numbers, but still...

[George K]

[George K]

Link to video

[89th]

You know, with all the money involved, you think we could get a smooth 4K 60fps feed from the moon by now.

[Horace]

As far as I can tell, India has a huge number of engineers.

[Copper]

That is so fake.

Does anyone fall for this stuff?

[Rainman]

I must be really far out of the loop. I had no idea India was spending all this money to go to the moon. Did they solve the massive poverty in their country, or at least convincingly pad the numbers? What do they gain by this, as opposed to placing a large number of satellites into orbit? Did we leave something valuable there that Russia and India want to retrieve, under some big rock maybe? I don't get it.

[Copper]

A project like this can eliminate a lot of massive poverty.

[89th]

India's space mission cost $74 million. Compared to the USA's cost of $700 million for the same. At least that's what the internet told me.

[George K]

@89th said in Watch India Try Soft Lunar Landing - Live:

India's space mission cost $74 million. Compared to the USA's cost of $700 million

Labor is cheaper? Fewer pesky NASA "environmental impact" inspections?

I wonder what SpaceX's cost would be.

[Copper]

Just look at the control room

No DEI

[George K]

@Copper said in Watch India Try Soft Lunar Landing - Live:

Just look at the control room

No DEI

Holy cow!

[George K]

Time to sleep...