India's historic leap forward, the much-anticipated Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully landed on the moon
1 billion heartbeats! India's successful moon landing, how did the United States and the European Space Agency secretly help?
India's much-anticipated third lunar exploration has attracted the attention of the world tonight. The latest news, successful landing. The lander, Vikram, kicked off a large cloud of lunar dust on landing. The landing was completed a few days after the Russian Chandrayael-25 crashed into the moon. Indian media binge en masse. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated and spoke via video.
The landing took place at 6:04 p.m. (just after 8 p.m. Beijing time), and there was a loud cheer from the command center of the Indian Space Agency. The media was flooded with congratulatory messages. Sri Lanka was even more desperate, sending a congratulatory message the day before the landing.
India's success led to becoming the fourth country in the world to land on the moon.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who attended the event online from South Africa, who is attending the BRICS summit in South Africa, said: "This moment is precious and unprecedented. This moment announced the victory of the new India. This moment is the power of 1 billion heartbeats." He said India's success belongs to all mankind. This will help other countries on future missions to the moon.
India spent $6 billion and, of course, foreign technical support. "India's successful mission to the moon is not India's alone." So, how can NASA and the European Space Agency help India's lunar mission?
First, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) space station provided tracking support to India during lander descents. The lander will land on the lunar surface at a horizontal speed of less than 0.5 meters per second, a vertical speed of less than 2 meters per second and a slope of less than 120 degrees.
The Chandrayaan-3 orbiter is located in lunar orbit, about 380,000 kilometers from Earth. India's largest 32-meter dish antenna, located near Bangalore, is tracking Chandrayaan-3.
But sometimes the lander moves to a shadowed area and cannot be tracked from here. This is the use of deep space networks in the United States and Europe. However, this is not a free service. India pays a fee, depending on how many antennas it uses and for how long. Therefore, when the lander is not in the Indian antenna field of view, the United States and Europe relay the information to the command center in Bangalore.
India's strategic target is the lunar south pole, a location known for its water ice deposits. This resource has the potential to become an important reservoir of oxygen, fuel and water, providing valuable support for upcoming lunar expeditions and the establishment of sustainable and lasting lunar bases and Mars exploration in the future.
A successful moon landing would make India the fourth country to achieve this difficult first step in interstellar exploration, after the United States, Russia and China.
To put it mildly, Roscosmos propagandists also screwed themselves up. Even before the crash, the Russian space agency was high-profile about the spacecraft sending back photos of Zeeman Crater. This was immediately declared a great achievement. But in fact the former Soviet Union did it in 1967, and at the best resolution.
The Chandrayaan-25 crashed, revealing the true state of the Russian space industry, which had long been carefully concealed.
From an economic point of view, Russia does not need to engage in lunar exploration at all, and now the funds could have been used to build several modern factories. Used in the production of automotive, aerospace or any other parts, or electronics.
The Soviet Union was capable of undertaking a huge space program because it was a superpower and had this economic and technological prowess. The Soviet Union also sent probes to Mars, Venus, Mercury and beyond. to show that the USSR was ahead of the United States. A lot of money was burned.
The Americans are much smarter, and after landing on the moon, immediately stop the project and stop burning money.
There are a lot of problems overall. All the plans for the lunar landing in the USSR and the United States were strangely frozen even more than half a century ago. Including the "lunar base", in fact, the modules are ready, including the power plant. Similar work was underway in the United States, but also abruptly stopped. And surprisingly synchronization. Of course, one can again speculate that some kind of agreement may have been reached between the leaders of the USSR and the United States.
Now the American Artemis program has also suddenly stalled, although something has flown near the moon in the United States. It is said that the Americans intend to re-land the moon with the Orion spacecraft, just like Apollo 11. Let's say we believe. But now NASA is pushing the next launch further and further away, which gives rise to interesting ideas. Was the project abandoned?
In principle, the Americans can land on the moon again. The United States has highly developed space technology and its launch vehicles, but even so, the plan was delayed, indicating that the moon landing is not as simple as lip service.