Chandrayaan-2: Success in India's second attempt at launching Moon mission

CNN ^ | Helen Regan and Manveena Suri,

[McGruff]

At least they’ll have good tech support.

[PIF]

Companies in the US are hiring them via H1B - there is no invasion - take a breath.

[Reno89519]

Guess you don’t work in IT or have friends and family that do. Whether US companies are being traitors or not, the end result is millions of Indians here in the US. Lyn’ Ted and others supported increase, there is a bill working through Congress to add even more and let them all stay. Americans lose. America loses.

[NCC-1701]

“...It will travel for two months, before positioning itself in a circular orbit...”

Why so long? It took our Apollo guys roughly three days to get there.

[BenLurkin]

"The mission is planned to fly on a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk III) with an approximate lift-off mass of 3,850 kg (8,490 lb) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre ...the Chandrayaan-2 stack would be initially put in an Earth parking orbit of 170 km perigee and 40,400 km apogee by the launch vehicle.[52] It will then perform orbit-raising operations followed by trans-lunar injection using its own power."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2#Design

[ADemocratNoMore]

OK, so I know that the picture here is an infographic from one of the fake news outlets and it’s probably harder to illustrate a soft landing with retro-rockets but seriously, what genius thought it would be a good idea to use parachutes to land on the moon ???