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Gagan

Khalsa wrote:
Gagan wrote: Khardung La?
Yes and the second part is flying back to Leg. The Descent.

I've found it.
This is Pullu town, it is north of the pass, and they fly back further north towards Khardung village onwards to Thoise.
This is north of Khardung La pass headed to Thoise.

Gagan

I think ISRO should do a Vikram-R or 2 with a rover as a stand alone mission than expediting Chandrayan-3 Mission. since we already have orbiter around the moon and which is expected to be there for 7 years. We should modify Vikram and the rover based on the data received and may be add a Radioisot...

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Indranil wrote:Look at the cockpit video of LUH at hot and high conditions. It is still so agile.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1169541193048281089

Khardung La?

Gagan

Chinese will do some drama at the LAC, to show their solidarity with the Pakistanis. They will do aggressive patrols in the areas jointly patrolled by India and China, but we know this already. There will be some sound, but no real substance. But 100%, there won't be a single bullet fired across the...

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mmasand wrote:ANI reporting with images of 'civilians' protesting within 150 metres of the LC. Army fired warning shots to keep them at bay.

It must be a mix of Jihadis and Pak Faujis, as well.
Or the Pak faujis are hiding behind the hill and are forcing these folks to approach the LoC

Gagan

There are so many possibilities here 1. Radiation accident at the N plant site. 2. The Mard-e-momeen polk flied lice supplier, put extra spices and some poison into the polk, so cheenis got sick. My question is why only the Chinese got sick per the report hain ji? No purelander got sick hain ji? Mac...

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Something is fishy with the Dengue story Why is the IAEA the nodal agency investigating such outbreaks of TseTse fly and Dengue mosquitoes? There is research that shows that mosquitoes get more malignant when exposed to radioactivity, such as near N plant construction sites. Those Chinese engineers ...

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Mort Walker wrote:
Gagan wrote:The orbiter has a Camera with a 30cm resolution !!!
This is perhaps the most high resolution camera to ever orbit the moon !
Source please.

Mort ji
The Principal Scientific Advisor to GoI has tweeted the above.

Gagan

Posting a series of twitter posts by the Principal Scientific Advisor GOI: Since the launch of Chandrayaan-2 on July 22, 2019, India and the world watched its progress from one phase to the next with great expectation and excitement. The Chandrayaan-2 mission is very complex, and a significant techn...

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PM Bhutan wrote:We are proud of India and its scientists today. Chandrayaan-2 saw some challenges last minute but the courage and hard work you have shown are historical. Knowing Prime Minister @narendramodi, I have no doubt he and his ISRO team will make it happen one day.

Gagan

The orbiter has a Camera with a 30cm resolution !!!
This is perhaps the most high resolution camera to ever orbit the moon !

Gagan

It passes over the same spot every 2 hrs or so
They probably had an image while PM was still at ISRO HQ

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From News18: Is that a ‘UGE camera or what?

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From India Today:

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As told by so many, this mission accomplished: Heaviest successful payload launch to GTO - means lift capacity for Gaganyaan available. Rishi_Tri ji For gaganyaan they will need perhaps 3-4 x the throw weight that the Mk3 has. Semi cryo is the answer. Maybe they can get a few RD-180 or 170 from roo...

Gagan

Well Vikram HAS landed. It is a hard landing They must have anticipated problems with throttling down 4 engines, so had to go down the route of having just two engines Also remember, the 4 engines are not working at a 100% each! At least two are controlling their thrust a bit as the lander is being ...

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Lunar soil is negatively charged, and too much dust will hamper comms
If it is buried in a dune, its solar panel won't charge it and it will not communicate

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All that is knows is that there is a comms cut off. It still had several seconds before it should have landed. <Conspiracy Theory> PM, Dr Sivan, Other senior ISRO officials go to Dr Sivan's office, where they look at encrypted photos of the landing site taken by the orbiter in near real time. They k...

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Only info that is already open source comes in here.
But some posters here, need to adhere to it as well

Gagan

Its angle is already close to horizontal as it is firing its retro rockets to slow down, there is a risk that it can tip over completely at that point. Its angle is carefully controlled and it is progressively brought to a more vertical attitude from an angle that is closer to horizontal. It is poss...

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They can use cushioning balloons like the ones used while landing on Mars Or they should have a Single gimbaled engine, or throttle down 4 engines. I am no rocketery expert, other than the Diwali Rockets, but 2 engines seems like a lot of balancing to do. And the transition from 4 to 2 to 1 was goin...

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We have confirmation that the Indian Navy now has at least 3 N subs in the water.

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If it was inverted or horizontal, and its engines burning, that will cause deviation from the flight path laterally, which possibly seems to have happened.
Also descent velocity which was coming down, will start to now increase

Gagan

See from 2:42 till 2:59 ...

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The final moments of Vikram Lander: The graph deviates at 2:17 seconds. At 2:42, Vikram is nearly inverted !!! It recovers, then over corrects !!! It tumbled at the critical juncture when soft landing phase was started. This indicates perhaps that one engine shut off later than the other, causing an...

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If it is confirmed failure then I think ISRO should go for a Lander + Rover only mission with a Vikram-R modified accordingly with in the next year If there is no orbiter, then they can land a much bigger lander, with way more equipment on it. Maybe they can have the Rover go back and forth between...

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The camera on the Orbiter looks HUGE !!!!
It is like a mini hubble telescope no?
If it is Hi-Res enough, it can see ALL the moon missions.

The only hitch is that the Vikram Landing site have sunlight for pictures to be available !

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Vikram cannot communicate to ground station. It can only talk to Orbiter. If the Orbiter is on the other end, can Vikram communicate to it? Don't we need to wait for it circle back. It can communicate directly Pragyan rover, can only communicate with Vikram Lander, which communicates with the Deep ...

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So what is next? Would this mission be abandoned and would they have to start a new one or is this salvageable? The orbiter mission is on for atleast one year. They will complete that detailed 3D map of the Moon, that was interrupted when Chandrayaan 1 stopped functioning. India should have the MOS...

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SaiK wrote:Typo. Sorry

Too big a mistake...
Can't be forgiven onlee...

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Pallav Bagla shouting loudly ...
I tell you these NDTV walas !
They will always slip in a question about poor country, what is the justification for space program, and now shouting loudly about ISRO tradition.

ISRO asks presstitutes to leave the ISRO campus ASAP

Gagan

Momentarily it might, if the debris is too much, but not for this long

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The dust and debris will disrupt Comms? If it got too close to the moonsurface?

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Google earth images show TWO Arihant Class subs in the water.

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If they get pictures, will they have the heart to release the pics?
It is like their baby, they nurtured it to this stage

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The final telemetery is snake like, possible tumble.

VIKRAM HAS LANDED ON THE MOON. The question is if it has soft landed? Or Hard Landed?

Gagan

Nothing on the X band per the poster above

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X band from the Lander:

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If they get the first stage semi cryo engines from Russia, they can do it, but validating the rocket will take several development flights.

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Now in serial order: The kink in the Doppler curve of #Chandrayaan2Live Vikram lander shows that the landing burn started. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDzp6WqXkAEXkCi.png The landing burn is progressing well! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDzqmRIXkAUTUz1.png Another kink in the Doppler curve. The end ...

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