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Seriously you need to update your knowledge... not knowing about a mars exploration satellites?

Here are some very informative articles about ISRO MOM, by Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/congrat...

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1122094...

Second link nicely explains the differences between NASA MAVEN and ISRO MOM trajectories.

Me neither. I vaguely defend myself by noting that HN seems to be fairly US-centric, and since I live in the US, I tend to hear more about things like SpaceX launches (watched the two aborted ones this week) than I do about the Indian, Chinese or Japanese space programs.

You're in luck - Chang'e 3 launches tomorrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3), and assuming it doesn't blow up en route to orbit you'll probably hear more about it (especially as it's forecast to be the first spacecraft in decades to make a soft landing upon the Moon).

Damn, is there video being streamed anywhere?

Edit: I guess it already took off by the time I saw this.

It was on HN front page when the orbiter was launched.