Hoping for a successful landing! I love how ambitious ISRO it with what little money they get from the government
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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Dope. The more stellar exploration, the better. I don't care who is doing it as long as it's happening. I wish someone would find a huge vein of some valuable resource on the moon or mars so it would hurry up the exploitation crowd that typically drives expansion...
I wonder what happened to the U.S. initiative to mine helium-3 from the moon? There was a plan to create a moon base a few years ago specifically for that.
Isn't Helium-3 mainly used for fusion reactors? So as long as fusion reactors are still just in an early prototype phase, such a mining operation is probably not really lucrative.
There is a lot of countries in the world that still use nuclear fusion, and despite doomsayers it's still the best option for the future...
edit: to correct Fission > Fusion
Do you have a source for that? I can only find info about it being used for fusion.
hmm, I guess I'm wrong. I read about helium-3 a long time ago and I must have mistaken the purpose. I guess helium-3 is a byproduct of fission and can be used for fusion, but the energy cost to produce it in this manner is massive and isn't sustainable.
Helium-3 is filtered out by the atmosphere so very little of it occurs naturally on earth, the lunar surface was the best/easiest place to mine for it.
If successful, India will be the fourth country to land on the Moon besides the US, the USSR, and China.
(China has had rovers on the Moon since 2013)
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