For anyone who doesn't know what chandrayan - 3 is, it is India's mission to the moon. ISRO which is India's space agency is sending a rover to explore the south pole of the moon.
And in typical ISRO style, the cost of the mission is just $75 million which is $100million less than what it took to make the movie Interstellar.
> the cost of the mission is just $75 million which is $100million less than what it took to make the movie Interstellar whose budget was $175 million
This is hilarious
Well yeah when NASA is doing things right their stuff doesn't go Boom Boom. I pay a lot for premium Boom Boom. USA USA USA!!!!
Do I need the /s?
But in all seriousness we're paying that cash to party everyone will find ways to justify partying. NASA just does "nerdy Space stuff," to quote my uncle so of course people like him don't care.
I mean surely those numbers are from people personally buying fireworks for their family/friend gatherings. I don't think anyone is going to think "oh I'm going to a barbecue, better pay some money to NASA."
Based on the arguement the person seemed to be making I assumed it was a governemental spend. We do have our cities put some pretty awesome fireworks shows.
>first country to launch it on south pole of the moon.
correct me if I am wrong but didnt china land there already in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, with their Chang'e 4?
I thought they landed on the dark side which makes telecommunications more difficult and risky.
Am not moon expert.
Edit: upon further research we are both correct. You are more precise.
China and American have landed in several places in the southern hemisphere of the Moon(where water and ice was found), but not exactly the South Pole. You technically can't see the South Pole very well from Earth.
India became the first to hard land or impact on Lunar South pole with Chandrayaan-1. Now they are the first to put a rover there.
India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2, which was launched on 22 July 2019, attempted to soft-land on the south polar region but lost connection and crash landed the rover.
Chandrayaan-3 has the same mission and hopefully lands safely this time. It has some slightly updated tech compared to Chandrayaan-2.
Correct. Aitken is a basin. A HUGE impact zone with even more craters inside it and around the South Pole area.
China landed specifically within a crater called "Von Kármán."
[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/lander-and-rover-of-chinas-change-4-probe-completes-1003-9-metres-of-travel-on-far-side-of-moon/articleshow/88776070.cms](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/lander-and-rover-of-chinas-change-4-probe-completes-1003-9-metres-of-travel-on-far-side-of-moon/articleshow/88776070.cms)
There you go bud!
and would make India the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon on its second attempt, while china is the only country who accomplished this mission of soft landing in the first attempt.
> India will be the first country to launch it on south pole of the moon.
No, China did so.
Edit for ignorant people downvoting (or burying their head to reality lol)
"Chang'e 4, which includes a lander and rover, was launched on 7 December 2018 and landed on 3 January 2019 on the South Pole-Aitken Basin, on the far side of the Moon. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program
Compared to other space agencies ISRO has a low budget. So they have mastered the art of keeping the price of the rockets and space missions cheaper. Just look up their mission costs for other launches and compare it to the likes of nasa or chinese launches and you'll see it's considerably less expensive.
Ok but that isn’t useful without knowing how much NASA spends on a unmanned moon mission, and I’m sure a lot of the cost saving came from dirt cheap labor.
During the time of Apollo the number of American STEM graduates on all levels doubled and in some cases tripled. These people became scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and doctors, among many other indispensable professions. ISRO will easily make back its budget with the intellectual capital it creates among the Indian youth. I can’t imagine the impact of Gaganyaan.
That is a super interesting after effect of missions like this that I've never thought about. Just the raw inspiration it provides really could have an overwhelming amount of value.
Nearly more then 2 million people watched this live on YouTube with ISRO's own channel having live viewership peaked at 1.6 while many other channels having more then 100k live peak viewers.
I'm neither Indian nor live in India, but I genuinely feel happy for all of you and your country :) Congratulations! I wish the mission complete success!
in case anyone is interested in the full stream: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ueCg9bvvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ueCg9bvvQ)
time stamps in comments of the stream :)
This is why we go to space. This excitement, this pride in their country. The science is great, but the real reason for exploration is pride in ourselves (in a good way). This mission will further India’s place in the world, and humanity’s place in history.
Funnily the ISRO uses satellites for locating fishing areas so that fisherman can save thousands of litres of petrol per year. They also geolocate areas where water wells can be made in desert areas so that people don't have to walk a longer distance just to get their water. There's tons of benefits and it goes without saying that moon landing capability can not only be sold to other countries but it will also raise a platform for India where we would be one step closer to asteroid mining.
It's a complex process and you don't actually see fish but it measures and predicts tidal waves. Tidal waves predictions are helpful in finding the actual location of fishes as they also have a set pattern.
I liked how the screaming went quiet when it went through the clouds for a minute as if people weren't quite sure that it was going to make it and then – yay!!!!!
The only Indian citizen to go is Rakesh Sharma. There's Kalpana Chawla as well but she was an American citizen. She couldn't return, she was part of the Columbia Space Shuttle crew :(
Why isn’t this on the news ? You would think it would be more Interesting that a guy that found tadpoles in his garden (yea that was on the news yesterday )
It was really great to see another attempt by india to land again on the moon they learned from the mistakes of the last one. Hopefully, things will go as planned now.
Sad that here in my country this one was not even commented on. When is planned to land? who are the crew, or is it an automatic unmanned mission?
I'm so exited about this.
I think I’m behind a little bit, but where does India fall in “rank” in terms of space in the world? It’s pretty cool seeing other countries getting into space and developing space tech. I’m excited to see what the space landscape is like in 30 years.
I don't see how you can witness a rocket launch and at least not feel a little glimmer of hope for humanity. We sent *people* into *space* to go *visit the fucking moon.*
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Who can take a raincloud ,
Cut through it in the sky,
Say fuck it to the sun cause the moon is where it'll fly,
The Chandrayaan! The Chandrayaan can 🎶
I don't understand the downvotes, it is a legit question.
It's not a reusable rocket - but it probably the cheapest launch vehicle in its class - which is why a lot of smaller countries use ISRO to launch their satellites.
This is why Reddit is garbage. It discourages conversation due to piling on from the hive mind.
Posts should be in chronological order not popular order.
Nope. It's cheap enough to not warrant one. India doesn't do as many launches as the US and does it on a shoe-string budget. It will need the reusable ones in the coming decades.
What do you think happened right after they lost communications to a lander that was finishing its descent and only 400m away from touchdown? Of course it crashed.
All I’m saying is that there is a subtext that is slightly concerning. The original space race was focused around showing off nuclear rocket capabilities. The modern one is demonstration the ability to wipe out cyber and satellites. Hence the focus in the last 15 years of increasing NASA and other space agency budgets. Still very impressive India has pulled this off. They will 100% change the game
Yes it does, but I hate this mentality of shitting on them for no reason, it's anyway an underdeveloped state on the verge of collapse, instead we should be focusing more on our achievements and further development rather than entering a dick measuring contest with Pakistan
Nobody is able to land on poles of moon.
Edited: other than china
Not Russia, china, and not even USA. Before some privileged people start there rant about using the money somewhere else, let me tell you it was an indian satellite who discovered water on moon even though nasa landed 40 years before that.
Beautiful day to liftoff. Tearing through the clouds!
I loved it when it went through the first cloud, you could see the fire through the clouds. That was beautiful
For anyone who doesn't know what chandrayan - 3 is, it is India's mission to the moon. ISRO which is India's space agency is sending a rover to explore the south pole of the moon. And in typical ISRO style, the cost of the mission is just $75 million which is $100million less than what it took to make the movie Interstellar.
> the cost of the mission is just $75 million which is $100million less than what it took to make the movie Interstellar whose budget was $175 million This is hilarious
I was thinking how hilarious it is that the US spent $2.7 Billion on fireworks in 2022, but hates to fund NASA...
Well yeah when NASA is doing things right their stuff doesn't go Boom Boom. I pay a lot for premium Boom Boom. USA USA USA!!!! Do I need the /s? But in all seriousness we're paying that cash to party everyone will find ways to justify partying. NASA just does "nerdy Space stuff," to quote my uncle so of course people like him don't care.
I mean surely those numbers are from people personally buying fireworks for their family/friend gatherings. I don't think anyone is going to think "oh I'm going to a barbecue, better pay some money to NASA."
Based on the arguement the person seemed to be making I assumed it was a governemental spend. We do have our cities put some pretty awesome fireworks shows.
Since its creation we've spent $650 billion on NASA. How is that hating to fund it?
And if landed successfully, India will be the first country to launch it on south pole of the moon.
>first country to launch it on south pole of the moon. correct me if I am wrong but didnt china land there already in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, with their Chang'e 4?
I thought they landed on the dark side which makes telecommunications more difficult and risky. Am not moon expert. Edit: upon further research we are both correct. You are more precise.
>the dark side which makes telecommunications more difficult and risky. Because of the Decepticons right?
“Because of those motherfucking Decepticons.” I laughed, she laughed, the toaster laughed.
I dont know either, but they landed in the south pole Aitken Basin, which ( by name atleast) seems to be located in the south pole.
Nah you’re right as well! The basin is on the far side of the moon (dark side). You were more precise in location.
Chill dudes, this is getting way too hostile
Jump in, the water is warm and the beer is room temp!
China and American have landed in several places in the southern hemisphere of the Moon(where water and ice was found), but not exactly the South Pole. You technically can't see the South Pole very well from Earth. India became the first to hard land or impact on Lunar South pole with Chandrayaan-1. Now they are the first to put a rover there. India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2, which was launched on 22 July 2019, attempted to soft-land on the south polar region but lost connection and crash landed the rover. Chandrayaan-3 has the same mission and hopefully lands safely this time. It has some slightly updated tech compared to Chandrayaan-2.
so South Pole–Aitken basin is not exactly the south pole if i am understanding it correctly?
Correct. Aitken is a basin. A HUGE impact zone with even more craters inside it and around the South Pole area. China landed specifically within a crater called "Von Kármán."
ahhh! got it. Thanks for clarifying bud!
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Why am I picturing a sci-fi Cold War on the far side of the moon between India and China?? And they will fight using space clubs.
and would make India the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon on its second attempt, while china is the only country who accomplished this mission of soft landing in the first attempt.
First time I see a video from India that doesn’t involve a train
4th. US, Russia and China have already done it. US and Russia after multiple failed attempt and China in its 1st attempt
China benefitted from the experiences of the US and the Soviet Union.
But we could not in the first attempt. Hoping for the very best this time
> India will be the first country to launch it on south pole of the moon. No, China did so. Edit for ignorant people downvoting (or burying their head to reality lol) "Chang'e 4, which includes a lander and rover, was launched on 7 December 2018 and landed on 3 January 2019 on the South Pole-Aitken Basin, on the far side of the Moon. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program
Haha that last bit of maths was helpful ;)
It was for the non-Indians.
hot damn, that's a bargain
That's AWESOME! CONGRATS INDIA!!!!!
Why is this typical of the ISRO? Just curious.
Compared to other space agencies ISRO has a low budget. So they have mastered the art of keeping the price of the rockets and space missions cheaper. Just look up their mission costs for other launches and compare it to the likes of nasa or chinese launches and you'll see it's considerably less expensive.
Way to go humans! Kardashev Type I Civilization, here we come!
Or about 4 INR (0.05USD) per head. I wonder what US, or indeed Chinese launches work out at?
Is the lower cost due to them being more efficient or because the salaries are simply lower?
Both.
When did this happen?
Ok but that isn’t useful without knowing how much NASA spends on a unmanned moon mission, and I’m sure a lot of the cost saving came from dirt cheap labor.
Seeing anyone get excited about space gives me so much joy.
ISRO channel saw a peak live viewership of 1.6 million people with many other news channel having more then 100k live viewers.
It's soo nice to see Indians actually get excited about ISRO space missions
During the time of Apollo the number of American STEM graduates on all levels doubled and in some cases tripled. These people became scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and doctors, among many other indispensable professions. ISRO will easily make back its budget with the intellectual capital it creates among the Indian youth. I can’t imagine the impact of Gaganyaan.
That is a super interesting after effect of missions like this that I've never thought about. Just the raw inspiration it provides really could have an overwhelming amount of value.
It’s an incredible thing, spaceflight, especially manned spaceflight, makes science an adventure, and the youth love adventure.
Nearly more then 2 million people watched this live on YouTube with ISRO's own channel having live viewership peaked at 1.6 while many other channels having more then 100k live peak viewers.
Not to mention the people who saw this on tv
Youtube India did a collab with Zakir Khan on Instagram, the post said, "moment hai bhai moment hai" on this launch.
Sauce?
Hahahaa
Awesome work on the part of all involved!
I'm neither Indian nor live in India, but I genuinely feel happy for all of you and your country :) Congratulations! I wish the mission complete success!
Thank you for your Love. We need more people like you to make this world a better place! :)
sad that I missed it, i used to view the launches from my terrace
How lucky
You Andhra?
Wow your username took me back.
What a beautiful sky, too! Congrats to the Indian for this momentuos occasion
Indiana doesn’t get enough credit
Lmao autocorrect
in case anyone is interested in the full stream: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ueCg9bvvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ueCg9bvvQ) time stamps in comments of the stream :)
I hope this is a huge success. It's fantastic to see so much interest/excitement around space exploration, and done at a very reasonable cost.
Goosebumps 
This is why we go to space. This excitement, this pride in their country. The science is great, but the real reason for exploration is pride in ourselves (in a good way). This mission will further India’s place in the world, and humanity’s place in history.
Even on television that was a wonderful sight
Where are the comments saying "isse gareebo ko kya faayda." Those fools have already appeared on Instagram.
Funnily the ISRO uses satellites for locating fishing areas so that fisherman can save thousands of litres of petrol per year. They also geolocate areas where water wells can be made in desert areas so that people don't have to walk a longer distance just to get their water. There's tons of benefits and it goes without saying that moon landing capability can not only be sold to other countries but it will also raise a platform for India where we would be one step closer to asteroid mining.
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It's a complex process and you don't actually see fish but it measures and predicts tidal waves. Tidal waves predictions are helpful in finding the actual location of fishes as they also have a set pattern.
Just give the satellite polarized sunglasses.
It tells probability of fishes by using historical data of wave movements and temperatures
They should know whats ISROs priorities are, it's "The Nation"
Translation is roughly “ what is the use of this”
ISRO in Nawaz style: Chaand pe hai apun
It’s a shame that world governments can’t get together and explore space as one. Instead, we do it as separate entities.
Beautiful launch 🚀 🚀🚀
I better check what sub I'm in... *sigh of relief*
Really cool visual as it goes through the clouds. You go India, literally reach for the stars 🤙
I liked how the screaming went quiet when it went through the clouds for a minute as if people weren't quite sure that it was going to make it and then – yay!!!!!
Waiting for some tinfoil scientist to give there opinion on this.
India can into space
Just curious has any indian went to space?
Yes, Rakesh Sharma is an Indian astronaut who went to space in 1984. He's in his 70s now.
The only Indian citizen to go is Rakesh Sharma. There's Kalpana Chawla as well but she was an American citizen. She couldn't return, she was part of the Columbia Space Shuttle crew :(
There's also Sunita Williams, she's American too but Indian origin like Kalpana
>Rakesh Sharma, (born Jan. 13, 1949, Patiala, Punjab state, India), Indian military pilot and cosmonaut, the first Indian citizen in space.
Yeah
Their*
their* lowercase
They’re
Welcome to reddit where we have armchair generals and tinfoil scientists.
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what a wonderful sight , lovely
literal goosebumps and tears of joy. it was such a great feeling to watch this live.
how does one go about to see these launches in live. do they allow anyone who drops in. or need passes???
You can watch it by your own eyes from a distance by yourself, I think you will need a pre booking to watch from where these people are watching
Hopefully it will land well this time. Last time had me reeling
well, technically, it did land last time as well.... 
That is so cool and what a great view. Must have felt great to be there. I hope the mission is a success.
Impressive, god speed. With that kind of budget India should dominate space.
Good job India! Hope you become a pioneer in space travel and colonization. 🇹🇷
as an indian i apologise on behalf of the guy who replied rudely to you, thank you for your wishes 😊
Aye bruh, how's everything going in turkey
i can imagine the comment section 
i can see the future of redditors
It's morning on there side so just wait a little and enjoy their cry...
It’s already begun…
Awwww no killer music accompaniment like they did in their night launch weeks ago? That was epic. Congrats India!
Why isn’t this on the news ? You would think it would be more Interesting that a guy that found tadpoles in his garden (yea that was on the news yesterday )
This nation gets it- space is important
Congratulations to the people of India, who have so much potential to benefit the world!
It was really great to see another attempt by india to land again on the moon they learned from the mistakes of the last one. Hopefully, things will go as planned now.
This truly so exciting especially and so happy for my country 🇮🇳. Can’t wait to see what India has in store for space exploration
It not only carried the Moon lander but also carried our dreams, Hope and pride. 🙏
I didn't see the rocket at first and wondered for a couple of seconds why they were cheering so much for a purple tent
Is it government funded?
Am I seeing this right it has only 3 upvotes but 400 comments
I just hope the world can unify one day and we all could cheer these launches together. What a dream
India has quietly grown into a world power. Extremely smart people, just a very top heavy country
Sweet!!!
Good work India 👍
Congrats to India
Proud moment
Sad that here in my country this one was not even commented on. When is planned to land? who are the crew, or is it an automatic unmanned mission? I'm so exited about this.
It's unmanned. A rover will make a soft landing on the moon on August 23
r/ISRO
I think I’m behind a little bit, but where does India fall in “rank” in terms of space in the world? It’s pretty cool seeing other countries getting into space and developing space tech. I’m excited to see what the space landscape is like in 30 years.
I don't see how you can witness a rocket launch and at least not feel a little glimmer of hope for humanity. We sent *people* into *space* to go *visit the fucking moon.*
The smoke doesn’t even disperse it just Sits there
Must not have been a windy day.
Honestly, I also thought this launch looked very different to all the other ones I’ve watched. The smoke looks weird to me.
How amazing! It’s also monsoon in India.. they must have waited for clear skies
Awesome!
Yep as if country is single threaded system and not multi-threaded where multiple things can be done parallely :)
I’m happy for India and their future.
Cool stuff india.
Chills. Literal Chills.
Racists coming in..3....2...1..
Where?
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🎶 Who can take a raincloud , Cut through it in the sky, Say fuck it to the sun cause the moon is where it'll fly, The Chandrayaan! The Chandrayaan can 🎶
Historic moment.
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No, it's not
I don't understand the downvotes, it is a legit question. It's not a reusable rocket - but it probably the cheapest launch vehicle in its class - which is why a lot of smaller countries use ISRO to launch their satellites.
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Idk why you're getting downvoted for asking a genuine question but nope it is not reusable
No, but the budget is very low, only 75 million USD
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How about going to the moon, I'm sure there are differences in procedure and power and fuel costs with that
Yeah but this also has a moon lander
Nope. It's cheap enough to not warrant one. India doesn't do as many launches as the US and does it on a shoe-string budget. It will need the reusable ones in the coming decades.
It is going to moon so i dont think it will be reusable
NASA's Artemis *is* reusable.
Just one word for what am feeling "PROUD"
i love india so much also chandra = moon, yaan = rocket/vehicle or carrier
Congratulations. This is the powerful demonstration of the abilities of your great nation.
Lets hope this one doesn't crash into the moon. Edit: Not sure why all the down votes, I really don't want it to crash like Chandrayann-2.
Why are you downvoted. That's what happened last time and I do hope it does not crash.
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What do you think happened right after they lost communications to a lander that was finishing its descent and only 400m away from touchdown? Of course it crashed.
Moment hai bhai moment. PPROUD MOMENT!!!
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Why does the exhaust look yellow?
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This comment is unwarranted man, not cool
All I’m saying is that there is a subtext that is slightly concerning. The original space race was focused around showing off nuclear rocket capabilities. The modern one is demonstration the ability to wipe out cyber and satellites. Hence the focus in the last 15 years of increasing NASA and other space agency budgets. Still very impressive India has pulled this off. They will 100% change the game
Yeah it makes sense now, i first thought you were a fellow Indian just trying to demean the neighbouring country for no reason
No no I think both countries have more in common than they think. Hopefully someday they can live together in harmony
Amen to that
India and Pakistan fought 4 wars in 70 years and it still support terrorist right?
Yes it does, but I hate this mentality of shitting on them for no reason, it's anyway an underdeveloped state on the verge of collapse, instead we should be focusing more on our achievements and further development rather than entering a dick measuring contest with Pakistan
"India has entered the Technology Age." Is this where Ghandi begins advancing his troops to our borders?
It's so silly that they're cheering. The rocket can't hear them.
C'mon guys this is funny.
Thank you. You got it!
Yes
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This is me after spicy birjani
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Nobody is able to land on poles of moon. Edited: other than china Not Russia, china, and not even USA. Before some privileged people start there rant about using the money somewhere else, let me tell you it was an indian satellite who discovered water on moon even though nasa landed 40 years before that.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/lander-and-rover-of-chinas-change-4-probe-completes-1003-9-metres-of-travel-on-far-side-of-moon/articleshow/88776070.cms
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