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[–] 109 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Nothing to worry about here, they'll probably go at night.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesn't that just increase the number of stars they need to dodge?

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This one will be tougher to land on.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    Still waiting for them to launch a mission to get rid of the caste system

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Even though I couldn't find any connection between a space mission to sun and casteism, I could assure you friend the latter is much difficult to solve. That's why countries still struggle with casteism or racism or sexism or some other evil-ism, but we shouldn't let it hold us back from the technical and scientific advancements. In fact one could argue building a science oriented society is the way to eradicate these issues.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Very interesting. Solar probes and low budgets usually don't go together. That's a lot of deceleration.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I usually only thought about slingshotting to speed up, I'd never considered slowing down past that one scene in The Martian. Can you elaborate further?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    There are 2 ways to go sunward. You can shed speed to reduce orbital distance, but 30 km/s is a lot of velocity to change. Or you use another body (often antisunward) and a slingshot to put the craft in a highly eccentric orbit that, at times, is near the sun - so you have many proximal destinations you have to hit without error to meet your course. A mars transfer is easier but you want to hit certain proximity windows.

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  • Wonderful. I hear the weather there is always sunny.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    After the sun, we go to Sagittarius A*

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  • [–] [B] 17 points 2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The latest mission in India’s ambitious space program has blasted off on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country’s successful unmanned moon landing.

    “Launch successful, all normal,” an Indian Space Research Organisation official announced from mission control as the vessel made its way to the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere.

    Raychaudhury said the mission probe would study coronal mass ejections, a periodic phenomenon that sees huge discharges of plasma and magnetic energy from the sun’s atmosphere.

    Aditya is travelling on the ISRO-designed, 320-tonne PSLV XL rocket that has been a mainstay of the Indian space program, powering earlier launches to the moon and Mars.

    The South Asian nation has a comparatively low-budget space program, but one that has grown considerably in size and momentum since it first sent a probe to orbit the moon in 2008.

    Experts say India can keep costs low by copying and adapting existing technology, and thanks to an abundance of highly skilled engineers who earn a fraction of their foreign counterparts’ wages.


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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you want to kill Cillian Murphy? Because this is how you kill Cillian Murphy.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yo, don't land on that one though /s

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    busy week huh

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    They don't rest on their laurels, do they?

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    SpaceX and Daddy Elon isn't happy.

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