TURKEY'S INSANE SPACE MISSION VS INDIA SPACE MISSIONS!

F-16 fighter pilot Alper Gezeravcı will go on a space trip to be carried out by an American private company on January 17, 2024, with a ticket purchased for 55 million dollars on behalf of Turkey.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission cost 6 billion rupees ($73 million)

After many design and software updates over a period of close to 4 years, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on an LVM3 rocket from the spaceport at Sriharikota on the east coast of India on July 14, 2023.

The vehicle entered an elliptical orbit around the Moon on August 5, then performed multiple maneuvers to a circular orbit, taking it to an altitude of approximately 150 kilometers above the Moon's surface. On August 23, it made a soft landing at the south pole of the moon.

The Chandrayaan-3 mission used images of the Moon from the orbiter since the unlucky Chandrayaan-2 mission, whose lander crashed into the lunar surface in 2019. Additionally, during this descent, Chandrayaan-2's orbiter also provided a critical communications link with Earth. In other words, the Moon mission was a process that took several stages and spanned many years.

The historic landing was broadcast live by ISRO and by Indian public broadcaster Doordarshan. The Chandrayaan-3 mission cost a modest budget of 6 billion rupees (around US$73 million).

Landing a vehicle on the moon is very difficult

It is noted that it is difficult to land a vehicle on the moon. Because the Moon has no atmosphere and the skill of the lander (or the computer) is important. India tried to land a vehicle on the Moon again in 2019, but due to a problem in the braking system, the unmanned vehicle named Chandrayaan-2 crashed on the lunar surface.

Various metals found near the Moon's south pole

When a laser detector mounted on the Chandrayaan-3 rover (Pragyaan) measured chemicals on the Moon's surface near the south pole; He found a range of chemicals including aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon and oxygen. But Indian scientists say the most important one is sulfur. Isro said the device's first in situ measurement confirmed the presence of sulfur on the Moon.

The fourth country to land on the Moon

India When India landed on the Moon, it became the 4th country to land on the Moon, after the USA, Russia and China. When the lander carrying the Pragyaan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, which was built with a budget of less than $73 million and means "lunar vehicle" in Sanskrit, landed on the Moon, India became the first country to land near the Moon's little-known south pole region.

India became the 27th country to sign the Artemis Agreement with the USA

We pointed out the importance of the Artemis Treaty above. This is like the NATO of space. When India successfully carried out these launches; The USA signed the Artemis Treaty with India in July as the 27th country. The Artemis program is an agreement that makes agreements on sharing space and plans a Mars mission. With the Artemis 3 mission, NASA aims to land astronauts near the Moon's south pole in late 2025 or 2026 and build one or more bases in the region soon after.

Mangalyaan missions of India

ISRO plans to launch its second interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan-2, next year, which will observe and study the surface of Mars. Mangal means Mars in Sanskrit while yaan means craft or tool.

This is how space work happens, not with a $55 million space ticket

It is amazing that they are among the very few countries in the world that conduct space studies. As you can see, the cost is 1.5 times that of our space ticket of tURKEY'S space mission!. So they spend 73 million dollars for a space trip that lands on the Moon. Moreover, this not only returns reputation, but also creates a new trading opportunity for them. tURKEY İS paying 55 million dollars for a ticket.

So why? "A Turk signed his signature on Space." Good luck, but what is the return on 1.7 billion? Probably in the upcoming local elections, AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will use this as a propaganda tool. Empty propaganda will be made to the Turkish people from the pockets of the Turkish people. I wish we had started planning a real space trip instead of paying so much money for a space ticket. Even if it failed like Chandrayaan-2, information would have been transferred to new studies.

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https://t24.com.tr/yazarlar/fusun-sarp-nebil/55-milyon-dolara-uzay-bileti-mi-73-milyon-dolara-ay-roketi-mi-hindistan-ornegi,43117