India's First Interplanetary Mission i.e Mars orbiter Mission

[punjabi_khota]

^It will be a bigger milestone than Chandrayan if it is successful. Interplanetary missions are no joke...the distances are much higher, engines bigger, communication and tracking problems more complex. It is a big leap in technology demonstration for sure.

[Laaloo]

Instead of wishing them luck' date=' the amount of filth i see on this on the facebook is frankly disgusting.[/quote'] That's pathetic. Indians are perfect in bringing down the achievement of others especially that of other indians. :icflove: :isalute:

[Yoda-esque]

450 crores ..is that the cost? Seems like an absurdly low number, to put that in perspective Commonwealth games cost 20000 crores lol Some movies cost 450 crores to make

[adi B]

glad to see india through ISRO making attempts to improve their space research work and gaining success in technological advancement..its a showcase to the world how far we have come by these years,1st the geosynchronous sat launch vehicle which gave us the base and now these satellite missions will give us the further strides ..hopefully the results are positive

[Ram]

^It will be a bigger milestone than Chandrayan if it is successful. Interplanetary missions are no joke...the distances are much higher' date=' engines bigger, communication and tracking problems more complex. It is a big leap in technology demonstration for sure.[/quote'] My bad, I meant to say the other way around. Maybe because the success of Chandrayaan could be felt almost immediately that we got a lot more positive press then. (after all, it is a relatively microscopic 300,000 km trip to lunar orbit, as opposed to the much more distant trip to Mars that Mangalyaan is undertaking..) These events make me so proud to be Indian.. For years, we have in the news for poverty, rapes, terror attacks and the likes.. This is one rare opportunity for all Indians to savor.

[vvvslaxman]

450 crores ..is that the cost? Seems like an absurdly low number, to put that in perspective Commonwealth games cost 20000 crores lol Some movies cost 450 crores to make

In common wealth games corruption alone amounted to 2342 crores :giggle: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-corruption-unlimited-rs2342-crore-lost-on-commonwealth-games-1573389

[ganeshran]

The first stage was the easy part. ISRO has been launching PSLVs successfully for years now. The second stage on December 1st when it leaves Earth and begins its journey towards Mars is more challenging.

[Texy]

So many disparaging and negative comments all over the internet especially from the padosis. The amount of jealousy, hatred and petty difference based on religious and political vendetta outweighing the success of human intelligence is simply repugnant.

[cowboysfan]

nobody is saying it but NASA should outsource their entire space program to India.I bet ISRO can get all projects done for 1/10 of the price.

[vvvslaxman]

nobody is saying it but NASA should outsource their entire space program to India.I bet ISRO can get all projects done for 1/10 of the price.

In all the socialistic hoopla the scientists responsible for this least expensive mars expedition in history did not get enough credit in the press.

[Ram]

nobody is saying it but NASA should outsource their entire space program to India.I bet ISRO can get all projects done for 1/10 of the price.

Lol, we are 30 years behind NASA when it comes to space exploration. The true test of space expertise is manned space flights, which NASA is capable of doing as a matter of routine. Forget manned flights, we are not even to the point where we can send a mouse to space. We are at least 10-15 years away from that as well.

[Crookbond]

BTW' date=' some Money spent for this mission is not from public funds. ISRO makes money by selling weather data, renting out transponders to telecom and DTH companies. Its part of the earned amount that has been spent here. No public money is wasted here[/quote']

[hhunaeh]

The british media have been the most critical and patronizing of this mission. If anybody cares to look it up most of the commenters inquiring about aid, toilets etc are from Britain and europe. They have trash media like the one below goading them on and a few other "respected" media sources write up patronizing articles as an riposte to the trash press . I think it might have to do with european local politics, state of their economy, general level of discomfort with brown people from the colonies doing well. Americans are a lot more understanding and less patronizing of india's mars mission. India sends rocket to Mars to show off its 'technological ability' as part of its $1billion a year space programme (but country will still receive British aid until 2015)

• Aim is to see if India has the ability to explore the solar system
• No country has been fully successful on its first mission to the Red Planet
• More than half the world's attempts to reach Mars have failed
• Government criticised for giving British aid to India which will end in 2015

India's launch of a space craft is proof it no longer needs British aid, campaigners have claimed. Delhi’s orbiter mission – part of a £600million space programme – blasted off this morning with an orbiter which will survey Mars. But the TaxPayers’ Alliance said it was wrong for a country to explore other planets while receiving UK aid, in India’s case £280million a year until 2015. ‘It’s atrocious that taxpayers are still handing money to a country rich enough not just to have its own space programme, but one that is blasting off to Mars,’ said Jonathan Isaby, the group’s political director. ‘If India can afford this kind of expenditure then it does not need a penny of British taxpayers’ money, especially when departments back home rightly have to cut their spending. ‘It’s difficult for taxpayers to believe the Department for International Development uses their cash wisely when they see it spent helping launch spacecraft to the red planet, rather than going to the world’s poorest.’ Ministers are committed to increasing overall aid spending by 30 per cent to £11.3billion this year and are expected to hit their target of spending 0.7 per cent of national income on aid. Unlike spending on policing, prisons and defence, which have been slashed to cut the deficit, the aid budget has enjoyed year-on-year increases. By next year, the bill will be £12.6billion a year – more than the £12.1billion spent on policing. But a recent poll found more than 60 per cent of voters believe the cash is wasted. India spends vast sums on defence and even has its own overseas aid programme, which cost £328million a year. Under Labour, India became the biggest net recipient of British aid, receiving £421million in 2010. Despite the country’s rapid economic development, then international development secretary Andrew Mitchell decided to approve a further £1.1billion in aid over the following four years. Last year his successor Justine Greening announced the outlays would end in 2015. India’s then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee embarrassed the Government by suggesting Britain’s aid payments were ‘a peanut in our total development expenditure’. If successful, the space mission will put India in an elite group of four, with the US, the EU and Russia, to have sent space craft to Mars. The mission follows the launch of a lunar craft in 2008. Jean Drèze, a leading development economist, has said: ‘It seems to be part of the Indian elite’s delusional quest for superpower status.’ A spokesman for the Department for International Development said: ‘Not a penny of British taxpayers’ aid money has gone on India’s space programme. 'India’s recent progress means that all financial grants from the UK to India will cease in 2015, after which we will focus on providing help in the form of private sector expertise and technical assistance that will also ultimately benefit British businesses and jobs.' Nigeria – another country with a space programme – also receives UK aid, worth £300million this year alone.

[FischerTal]

Lol British idiots. First you loot a country's economic resources for 200 years and then whine about giving a fraction of what you stole back to the host country. :reddy:

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Really the British still live in their colonial mindset.Pathetic. Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk 2

[hhunaeh]

[beetle]

Shame on people who are talking against this mission. This is a great achievement.Hope it succeeds. Even if it doesn't...hope they continue the efforts...no matter what the cost.This is the better use of the tax money than a 1001 other places or tax money is getting wasted. Salute the scientists behind this.:isalute: You are our national heroes :finger:the bastards whose biggest achievement till now is to send terrorists across the border while we send missions to moon and mars. :finger: bloody losers!!!!

[bulbul]

^ Just wait for some time , you will come to know who is going to take credit for this :giggle:

[Crookbond]

How India Launched Its Mars Mission At Cut-Rate Costs http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2013/11/07/how-indias-isro-launched-its-mars-mission-at-cut-rate-costs/ Mythbusting India's Mars Mission http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Mythbusting_Indias_Mars_Mission_999.html

[CSK Fan]

^ Just wait for some time ' date=' you will come to know who is going to take credit for this :giggle:[/quote'] Pretty ironical comment from someone who tries to bring politics+bashing congress+praising Modi into each and every topic under the sun. Maybe you need to take a look at yourself first?