[SKRIVA] Indien - på väg till Mars
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 20:02:14 +0100
Indien har idag skickat upp sin första rymdsond på väg till Mars:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/india-mars-probe-launch-space
"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."
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).
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.
Indians in space - yes, Sir! Will happen.
--Ahrvid
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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