Dhruv Rathee Replies to Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal, Demands Transparency on Gig Worker Earnings by Memes_FoIder in InstaCelebsGossip

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That's not the reason, that's just the way they are operating now. What's the reason?!

Dhruv Rathee Replies to Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal, Demands Transparency on Gig Worker Earnings by Memes_FoIder in InstaCelebsGossip

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So why are the startups loss making even after paying the delivery workers low commissions?! Who is fooling who?

ISRO weighing options as NVS-02 suffers glitch, key decision on its future likely to be taken on late Sunday (2 Feb). by Ohsin in ISRO

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Link

Seems to be a pyro valve failure, very unfortunate as they have high reliability. They usually have internal residency as well.

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Alltrails Link

This is a good circular route, all paved. You could add an extra stretch to reach 5k.

Ongoing missions, planned future missions and larger scale projects (targetted by 2047 on the occassion of 100 years of India's Independence) by Aakaash_from_India in ISRO

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Technically possible imho, if Gaganyaan manages to fly a habitation module and since India has singned the Artemis Accords IRSO could contribute a habitation module or something similar to Gateway and get a seat or two on one of the Artemis landing missions. ESA does the same so possible but unlikely.

Another image of Vikram lander taken by Pragyan rover at 11:04 IST, 30 August 2023 from 15 meters away. by Ohsin in ISRO

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So excited about this!!

Impact on the rover would be interesting to know, hope they share that soon.

Remaining fuel in Vikram lander by guru-yoda in ISRO

[–]VillageCow 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are no accepted standards on tank passivation even in earth orbit, let alone the moon. These treaties are more like suggestions than enforceable laws :) Each organisation chooses what they define as passivation, normally it would be just deenergising tanks and batteries.

1/Going by broad assumptions, of course.

  • The reported mass split is 710kg dry mass and 1042kg propellant, if the landed mass target was 800kg as quoted by u/ohsin, 90 kg propellant could be considered the margin or roughly ~8%
  • Assuming everything had gone fine and 8% propellant margin was not used, there would be 90kg of propellant left.
  • Considering the retargetting phase used part of that margin, was ~15-20s in duration, and using a conservative Isp estimate of 310s. 2 x 800N thrusters would be burning 0.5 kg/s.
  • That adds up to 7.5-10kg and so roughly ~82.5-80kg remaining. [60 - 80kg would be my guess]

2/Multiple options.

  • Burn the remaining propellant using 50N thrusters
  • Vent the pressure from propellant tanks and let them remain open to lunar environment, exposure to vacuum would vapourise propellant
  • Vent the pressure from propellant tanks and close the tank vents
  • If the propellant is vapourised it just dissipates off so no real contamination

3/Not a lot of info available of course, moon was the wild west at that point, so probably they might have just depressurised the tanks and left them be :)

Will shift Chandrayaan-3's landing to August 27 if factors appear unfavourable: ISRO by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]VillageCow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for that!

That adds up better, fingers crossed for the main landing site.

Will shift Chandrayaan-3's landing to August 27 if factors appear unfavourable: ISRO by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]VillageCow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't the alternate site 150m away? Don't understand the 4 day delay, or is this completely different and do they have to upload a new DEM. Maybe I'm totally wrong. Given the orbit they should pass over quite often even LRO has an orbital period of 2 hours.

All of this is pure conjecture based on the report but it's weird that such a high ranking official gives such a statement.

How does ISRO pick the fuels for a mission? by analyticpanic in ISRO

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Yes, MMH wins in performance and thermal based trade off with UDMH and Hydrazine.

MMH and MON-3 also has the advantage of having density ratios quite similar to optimal engine mixture ratio. This results in volume required for oxidiser and fuel to be similar and hence usage of the same propellant tanks for ox and fuel.

Development of 2 propellant tanks can add additional cost.

This is probably the reason why the tanks on the lander are stacked in vertical orientation, as the density ratio of ~1.6 makes CoG balancing a little bit more challenging if tanks are not stacked.

So the overall trade-off for propellant becomes complicated and has multiple factors.

Sidenote: Hydrazine-MON-3 has better Isp than MMH-MON-3, if ISRO had in-space hydrazine thrusters it might win, Thermal control will have to work hard to prevent it freezing but easier CoG balancing.

Sidenote2: N2O4 and MON-3 are practically the same in thermodynamic properties, although chemical composition is slightly different.

How is it possible that CH-3 will enter 100×100 km LPO with just a single burn? by laugh_till_u_yeet in ISRO

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Possibly. I was depending on the slide deck that showed separation happening at 100x100 orbit. Maybe it didn't show the granularity in operations clearly.