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发帖数: 8 | 1 India aborts moon mission launch, citing technical glitch
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/india-aborts-moon-mission-launch-
citing-technical-glitch/
SRIHARIKOTA, India (AP) — India aborted the launch on Monday of a
spacecraft intended to land on the far side of the moon less than an hour
before liftoff.
The Chandrayaan-2 mission was called off when a “technical snag” was
observed in the 640-ton, 14-story rocket launcher, Indian Space Research
Organization spokesman B.R. Guruprasad said.
The countdown abruptly stopped at T-56 minutes, 24 seconds, and Guruprasad
said that the agency would announce a revised launch date soon.
Chandrayaan, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, is designed for a soft
landing on the lunar south pole and to send a rover to explore water
deposits confirmed by a previous Indian space mission.
With nuclear-armed India poised to become the world’s fifth-largest economy
, the ardently nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
eager to show off the country’s prowess in security and technology. If
India did manage the soft landing, it would be only the fourth to do so
after the U.S., Russia and China.
Dr. K. Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, said at a
news conference last week that the around $140-million Chandrayaan-2 mission
was the nation’s most prestigious to date, in part because of the
technical complexities of soft landing on the lunar surface — an event he
described as “15 terrifying minutes.” | C*****l
发帖数: 1 | 2 别五十步笑百步了，中国的长征五号迟迟不能复飞，嫦娥五号今年上天也困难了。 |
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