Comments on: Another launch success for India https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-launch-success-for-india/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-launch-success-for-india/#comment-173203 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:38:58 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=29184#comment-173203 In reply to Competential.

Though I completely agree with you about the bright future of India’s space program, I must correct you. They will not be the second nation to fly a probe successfully to Mars’ orbit, should their Mars Orbiter Mission successfully gain orbit. Europe’s Mars Express orbiter has been circling Mars for years, taking excellent images and gathering tons of new data.

]]> By: Competential https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-launch-success-for-india/#comment-173201 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:33:12 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=29184#comment-173201 An Indian friend in aerospace tells me that he is very optimistic for the future of India’s space program, politically and technically. The second space agency ever to launch a probe to Mars orbit, if that works out later this year. The Japanese have failed (to Mars, but they’ve succeeded to asteroids further away). The Chinese failed while piggybacking on a Russian mission. The Europeans piggybacked the Huygens lander on a NASA interplanetary spacecraft. Now ISRO is going to Mars by themselves.

I think it proves that future space travel will be diverse, not cold war bi-polar.

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