[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon

[Ted Kochanski]

I don't think you can simply compare India to US costs for a moon landing
and rover

You can hire a very capable software engineer in Bangaloru for the cost of
an Amazon delivery driver in Boston
Hardware engineers are somewhat more expensive as the good ones have all
emigrated to the US

Ted

PS: the more interesting moon - related story this week is the crash of the
Russians Luna-25 into the moon's surface while preparing to land
The last successful lunar mission launched by the Soviets/Russians took
place when Gerald Ford was President of the US and Leonid Brezhnev was the
Soviet Boss

from the wikipedia article on Luna and Luna-Glob
Luna 24 E-8-5M No.413 Sample return
launched 9 August 1976 by Proton-K/D booster
Successful Landed in Mare Crisium (12.25 N, 62.20 E) at 02:00 UTC on 18
August 1976.
Sample returned to Earth on 22 August 1976

Luna 25 (Luna-Glob Lander) South pole lander
Launched 10 August 2023 Soyuz 2.1b
crashed into the moon 19 August 2023

from https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luna-glob.htm
Luna 25 was successfully launched on 10 August 2023.
It entered a lunar orbit on 16 August 2023.
On 19 August, Luna 25 was to lower its orbit in preparation for a landing
on 21 August 2023 near the lunar south pole at the crater Boguslawsky, but
during this maneuver contact was lost.
Reportedly the burn was 50% larger than planned, causing the lander to
crash on the lunar surface.
Note: it may have contaminated the moon with Pu -- since it had both solar
arrays and a radioisotope thermal-electric unit

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 1:41 PM Mitchell I. Wolfe via LCTG <
lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:

> Reuters reported the $75M budget as part of the initial coverage.
>
> Today they had an article about how costs were controlled on the
> suppliers, schedules, fuel, etc.
>
>
> https://www.reuters.com/world/india/chandrayaan-3-punches-home-indias-lead-budget-space-flights-2023-08-24/
>
> On 2023-08-24 12:40, Larry Wittig via LCTG wrote:
>
> An interesting note is that they did it for a small fraction of the price
> we pay. I think I it was $75M.
>
> https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-came-at-small-cost.html
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:28 PM Peter Albin via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us>
> wrote:
>
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/world/chandrayaan-3-lunar-landing-attempt-scn/index.html
>
> Peter
>
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