India triumphs in maiden mars mission

We Dared into the unknown and made near - impossible 

 

A success that makes us feel proud and lifts up our Nations name into the Space Race.

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan "Mars-craft "  is a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).It was successfully inserted into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014. Mangalyaan which today became a success started almost a year ago after the launch of lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 with an objective to showcase India's rocket launch systems, spacecraft-building and operations capabilities.India's first mission to Mars entered orbit on Wednesday, making it the first Asian nation to reach the Red Planet, all for less than the budget of the Hollywood space blockbuster "Gravity".The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, cost $74 million, a fraction of the $671 million the U.S. space agency NASA spent on its newly arrived MAVEN.

India joins the United States, Russia and Europe in successfully sending Probes to orbit or land on mars." After stepping into mars ,History has been created today," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, bursting into applause along with hundreds of scientists at the Bangalore command centre of the state-run Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). 

Sign of life

    Nervous flight controllers received confirmation of the successful maneuver around 8 a.m. India time (10:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday) when the spacecraft, nicknamed MOM, emerged from behind the planet and transmitted a signal.

    After completing the 666 million km (414 million mile) journey in more than 10 months, the spacecraft, also known as Mangalyaan -- Hindi for "Mars craft" -- will now study the Red Planet's surface and scan its atmosphere for chemical methane.

    The expected life of the craft is six months, after which it will run out of fuel and be unable to maintain its orbit.

    MAVEN, which arrived on Sunday, is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. It is designed to study the planet's thin atmosphere in attempt to learn what happened to Mars's water.

Manufacturing wise two-thirds of the craft's parts were made by Indian companies such as Larsen & Toubro (LART.NS) and Godrej & Boyce and with 30 Indian and 40 foreign satellite launches so far, its nearest cheap competition would be China, which is armed with bigger space launchers.

By- Bharat Phullera(A2325312011)