Thailand to launch first moon mission

[JeffP]

Shooting for the moon for who’s prestige? Average ma and pa in their wooden shacks will be so pleased. Maybe, the spaceship could put next to the submarines that were purchased at bargain Baht billions.

[nrasmussen]

I guess it's a typo and the 11 km/h and 2 km/h are supposed to be references to the escape velocities of Earth and Moon, respectively, so the correct unit would be km/s.

[dave moir]

11kph seems pretty damn slow to me!????

 

[richard_smith237]

1 minute ago, nrasmussen said:

I guess it's a typo and the 11 km/h and 2 km/h are supposed to be references to the escape velocities of Earth and Moon, respectively, so the correct unit would be km/s.

 

Exactly that...  It’s extremely obvious to anyone with a brain that this is what is meant. 

 

However, understanding and accepting the ‘minor’ mistake does not lend to a solid Thai Bashing !!! 

 

More to the point though, who proof reads these articles ?

 

 

 

 

[Raphael54]

"The spacecraft will travel at 11 kilometres per hour to the moon, before slowing to enter lunar orbit at 2kph." 

 

They better start working on this project. At the rate of 11 km per hour,  the journey itself would take 4 years if using the very shortest route.

 

The new parlement house which was started in 2013 and supposed to be completed in 900 days - later 1,000 days - is now (Dec 2020) still ready.  

 

Clearly it would be more appropriate for ThaiVisa to classify this sort of news in the Entertainment section. hahaha.

 

And therefore, again, I had to LOL and remember this song: 

 

[nrasmussen]

16 minutes ago, Catoni said:

Xenon Ion Thruster.    Okay once you are in interplanetary space.  But they will need chemical rockets to get up there first, and to boost out of Earth Orbit. 

 

Sure, but plenty of commercial launch vehicles available to take care of that.

[Shiver]

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

He had had too much to drink and was completely delusional.

Going to take a very long time to get there then. At 384,400km comes in just shy of four years.

Per second perhaps?

[ourmanflint]

Apparently there is a training film doing the rounds with the Thai Generals

 

Edited December 26, 2020 by ourmanflint

[Shiver]

Glad they've found something to do with the submarine finally.

[Ebumbu]

Excellent. Hopefully this kick starts their incipient green-cheese industry. 

[multatuli]

Another wet dream

[wealthychef]

Good for you Thailand for paying attention to science and technology.  However, you should know that there are other things that scientists can help with, like maybe building sidewalks.  

[WorriedNoodle]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The spacecraft will travel at 11 kilometres per hour to the moon, before slowing to enter lunar orbit at 2kph.

Thailand, the land of future interplanetary space travel and god awful news editing.

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, bodga said:

Hope they're  up to scratch on their geography

The Moon, how far from Sisaket is that???

[ChrisKC]

What is the difference between a rocket and a pie?

[PatOngo]

29 minutes ago, dave moir said:

11kph seems pretty damn slow to me!????

 

Not if it follows the buffalo!

[tandor]

...what a laugh..i bet it turns out to be one of those big square Khom Fais, with a long tail of crackers off it...they certainly have their priorities correct!

[Millcx]

6 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Sums up the biggest joke and exactly why MSM are even funnier 

[Benmart]

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Why?

Like submarines, everyone else has one and Thailabd may be invaded from outer space.

[terryofcrete]

If it’s true it is a disgraceful waste of money that could be spent on welfare and taking care of their people. So many basics still missing in the land of ( sad) smiles these days . An insult to the people who have nothing to eat .Bewildering !

[AgMech Cowboy]

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Why?

Same question I had in the 60's.

[animatic]

Well there won’t be any shortage of Space Cadets to send out where no Thai has gone before. Just reassign assorted Government Ministers to Inactive Positions!

Edited December 26, 2020 by animatic

[FritsSikkink]

Very bad timing and waist of resources

[ThaiFelix]

I'm sorry guys, but you bought a submarine, its not a spacecraft,  I know it looks same same but different but it is a submarine.  It travels under water, not into space.

 

No, sorry, alibaba dont do refunds or exchanges.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Minister Anek Laothamatas announced on Thursday that Thailand will produce high-tech satellites in four years, before advancing to build a spaceship with a weight of 300 kilograms for a mission to the moon.

For what purpose?

[Markus Rider]

Hey jokes are usually being made at April 1.... Wow a spaceship travelling at 11 km per hour.... I will we well ahead cycling to the moon haha...... 

[Nanaplaza666]

6 hours ago, Captain_Bob said:

"The spacecraft will travel at 11 kilometres per hour to the moon" 

Earth to moon distance approximately 384,400 km. Do the math, that's about 35,000 hours or 1,458 days or 4 years *one way*. Hope they have room for all that sticky rice and naam plao. What a fa*rking joke, a country which can't even keep millions of drunks off the roads or supply reliable electricity and internet to all its citizens proposes to pull off this pie-in-the-sky hi-tech publicity stunt. 555 very funny ???? 

I was thinking about the same but also i think it will be unmanned a spacecraft of just 300kg i geuss is not carrying any people . 

[Pilotman]

Can someone please pass this on to the PM,  I don't have his e mail. ???? Or alternatively, to the delusional <deleted> who thought up this idea. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_speed

Edited December 26, 2020 by Pilotman

[Leatherneck]

Anything our puppeteers can do, we can do too...probably with a Made in China label.

[condobrit001]

6 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Priceless. I love all these Asian Space programmes, Billions spent while the poor stay poor, and largely uneducated,  and the rich get richer, but are still uneducated. If their military flying is anything to go by, they will miss the Moon by miles. 

A bit like USA then?