Chandrayaan 1, India's first shot at the Moon, successfully inserted itself into lunar orbit Saturday. The initial orbit is highly elliptical, but the plan is to bring the probe into a circular orbit 62 miles above the surface over the next few weeks. Once that's done, Chandrayaan 1 is scheduled to spend two years making a chemical map of the entire Moon, which will be extremely useful to scientists, lunar base planners, and entreprenuers.
With this probe, India joins China and Japan as nations with probes currently in lunar orbit. A contest for political primacy in Asia is being joined, and achievement in space is one factor being used to demonstrate superiority. Sound familiar?
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kudos to India
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