[SKRIVA] RE: [SKRIVA] Indien - på väg till Mars
- From: Peter Nilsson <peter.w.nilsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 20:27:46 +0100
WOW!
Ballt!
Peter
> From: ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SKRIVA] Indien - på väg till Mars
> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 20:02:14 +0100
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> Indien har idag skickat upp sin första rymdsond på väg till Mars:
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> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/india-mars-probe-launch-space
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> "The $70m (£45m) mission India's first attempt to reach the red planet
> aims not just to gather information that might indicate if life has ever
> existed or could exist there, nor simply to showcase Indian technology, but
> to steal an interplanetary march on its regional rival, China.
> "In the last century the space race meant the US against the Soviets. In
> the 21st century it means India against China," said Pallava Bagla, one of
> India's best known science commentators. "There is a lot of national pride
> involved in this."
> That the mission was about national pride was never in doubt. It was
> announced last year by prime minister Manmohan Singh in his annual address
> from the battlements of Delhi's famous Red Fort, the bastion of the Mughal
> emperors. Its success would mean the Indians would join the Russians, the US
> and the European space agency which have all also reached Mars. ...
> Successive Indian governments have invested heavily in the country's space
> programme, making it one of the most capable in the developing world. The
> task of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) team is extraordinarily
> technical, involving huge numbers of complex calculations of the trajectory
> and speed of the rocket, the satellite and planets.
> Indian scientists say they are optimistic that it will be successful.
> "This is a very complicated mission but we have the capability to do it. We
> have developed new knowledge and we are very confident that we can achieve
> the navigation from earth to Mars accurately and properly," said ISRO
> chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan."
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> AE: Att Indien satsar på Mars verkar lovande. Men vi skall veta att sådana
> sonder har ca 50% chans att lyckas (att döma av historiska siffror).
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> Indien är inte längre bara bambu och leråkrar, utan i många sammanhang en
> höggteknologisk nation. Tillväxten har varit nästan lika stark som i Kina och
> då Indien har engelska som officiellt språk (om än första bara för några
> tiotal miljoner, andraspråk för många fler) har man kunnat få in mycket
> business ang support, teleservice osv.
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> Indians in space - yes, Sir! Will happen.
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> --Ahrvid
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> Ps. Jag tycker att ISS, NASA och ESA borde plocka in såväl Indien som Kina i
> samarbetet. (Så är det inte nu.)
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