Thejagielskifamily: India Goes To Mars

India Goes To Mars

The launch of the unmanned space probe mangalyaan which means mars craft in hindi will be the most remarkable and controversial moment in indias 30 year space programme. It will linger there for only six monthsabout a fifth of the time that it took to build the spacecraft and dispatch it to the red planet.

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It is india s first interplanetary mission and it made it the fourth space agency to reach mars after roscosmos nasa and the european space agency.

India goes to mars. This morning at 0908 gmt indian space research organisation isro successfully launched the mars orbiter mission also known as mangalyaan the countrys first spacecraft destined for mars. India made it to mars on the first try in 2014 when the mars orbiter mission mom or mangalyaan 1 successfully entered martian orbit and transmitted information. Indias first mission to the red planet called the mars orbiter mission is slated to launch from satish dhawan space center on oct.

A s the optimum period opens for flights to mars both india and the us are poised to launch mars orbiting craft. The us federal shutdown though threatened both missions delaying them until the next launch window opens in 2015 2016. Indias space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed by sending an operational mission to mars.

See photos from the missions preparation here. On tuesday india is due to launch a spacecraft from a small island in the bay of bengal which aims to reach the planet mars. The orbiters scientific agenda appears to be skimpy.

It made india the first asian nation to reach martian orbit and the first nation in the world to do so on its maiden attempt. Over the next 300 days it will slingshot around earth and travel to mars to begin its science mission. It is without doubt a considerable achievement.

Indias chandrayaan 2 mission is just the beginning of ambitious plans to launch the first gaganauts into earth orbit followed by missions to launch balloons at venus and land on mars. As it is dispensations were granted to allow work on nasas orbiter maven. India goes to mars.

On wednesday having travelled four hundred and ten million miles indias mangalyaan probe settled into orbit around mars. India successfully launches first mission to mars. The mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be in orbit shortly after 0800 indian time.

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