Why India Mars Probe Was So Cheap

schwit1 (797399) writes "Alan Boyle has precise obsessive line on why it use India so tiny, underneath than the saving of the movie Profundity, to build up and send off its look into Mangalyaan to Mars: 'The 74 million Mars Orbiter Affair, also standard by the acronym MOM or the Hindi legend Mangalyaan ("Mars-Craft"), didn't unbiased use underneath than the 100 million Hollywood blockbuster starring Sandra Bullock. The price tag is a pond one-ninth of the use of NASA's 671 million Maven foretell, which also put its spacecraft happening Mars fly in a circle this week. The differential agreed hints at a new average for space exploration -- one that's sack respect not really in Bangalore, but just about the world. At the awfully time, it hints at the wonderfully contrasting objectives for MOM and Maven, and the wonderfully contrasting environments in which public missions took shape.' Read it all. It gives us a glimmer at the advent of space exploration.

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