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It will most likely burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the ground/ocean. To my knowledge PM does not have any heat shielding and is not made to withstand the heat generated during reentry

That sounds incorrect, as per ISRO the rover will wake up when the circuitry warms up and detects solar light again. That can't be possible if the rover is in the lander.

You finally ventured out into the other section of the internet lol.. There's a whole lot of people out there excited for Chandrayaan-3. This forum, is kind of an echo chamber that way. You reinforce existing biases. It is mostly the unaware people who aren't into space think badly about any...

Yeah, light takes about a second and then some to go from the Moon to the Earth or vice-versa, one way. This is probably not that big enough of a time difference to cause issues while piloting the rover.

Not very sustainable if we expend that short term. The SLS program is a good look as to how our own HLV program should proceed, but currently we don't require that payload capacity. First step should be to nail the human spaceflight and orbital rendezvous before attempting something more...

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I wonder if we can bring in a radical shift like this as well. It would mean a completely different trajectory for India

Now usually I don't feel very nationalistic, I remain calm. But today...

30x100 is the final parking orbit just before descent, so I don't think there is any issue regarding that. I don't know what security issues really are, though

They are the worst. I try not to mix up science and their bullshittery because what the American space agencies have achieved is truly incredible, but fuck most of their redneck internet users.

Though seriously speaking, how exactly will it land without sensors like camera/radars? INS integration + following some quartic descent trajectory? I'm assuming they are using ring laser gyroscopes(don't know if that is the case actually) Or is it something way more simple like an open loop...

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Komarov's demise was a good indicator where the Soviet Union was headed to, regarding spaceflight.

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It's due to be launched for a very long while. They most probably just got around to it now

I have a bit of doubt if it will even make it to the Lunar surface safely given the recent ROSCOSMOS track record for unmanned probes recently(Nauka, Phobos-Grunt, ..). We'll see I suppose. Even if they make it before us, it's no big deal IMO - their space agency and scientific potential is...

No, it's right. It's called the Oberth effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect EDIT: sorry didn't read your answer down below.

I read that they are using a laser doppler module akin to the Apollo LEM landing radar in function, which generated values of ground velocity and altitude against the INS: What were they using in Chandrayaan-2? According to a news article I read, this laser doppler addition was specific to...

Yup. I think we'll get there by about mid-2040s ish, if we keep at this pace. The need for heavy launchers comes with heavy payloads(space station modules, as I think will be in our case.)