Wait for the moon
India, July 16 -- Just because Chandrayaan 2 , India's most ambitious space mission yet, was called off less than an hour before blast-off, doesn't mean that it has failed, dented our space programme or our global competitiveness. Considering that this mission had too much at stake, involving a moon landing on its southern side and a rover to map the surface and something which even Israel failed at just a while ago, it was better to err on the side of caution. Judging by the fact that a successful blastoff, the most spectacular of the launch procedure, does not in any way guarantee the larger trajectory of any satellite or lunar module, means that pre-checks have to be foolproof and any technical snag has to be looked at with the microsc...
Click here to read full article from source
To read the full article or to get the complete feed from this publication, please
Contact Us.