INDIA’S MARS

ORBITER MISSION

DONE BY,

AYISHA KHATOON

GRADE:7

THE INDIAN ACADEMY

India is the first Asian country to

successfully place a satellite into the

Red Planet's orbit.

MARS ORBITER MISSION

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan "Mars-craft" is a spacecraft orbiting MARS since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the INDIAN

SPACE RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (ISRO).The mission is a “Technology Demonstrator " project

to develop the technologies for design, planning, management, and operations of an interplanetary mission. It carries five instruments that will help

advance knowledge about Mars to achieve its secondary, scientific, objective.

MARS ORBITER MISSION

HOW DID IT LAUNCH?

The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space

Center (Sriharikota Range SHAR), Andra Pradesh, using a POLAR SATELLITE LAUNCH VEHICLE (PSLV) rocket

C25 at 09:08 UTC (14:38 IST) on 5 November 2013. The Launch window was approximately 20 days

long and started on 28 October 2013.The MOM probe spent about a month in geocentric, Low

Earth Orbit, where it made a series of seven altitude-raising orbital manoeuvres before trans - mars

injection on 30 November 2013 (UTC). After a 298-day transit to Mars, it was successfully inserted into Mars

orbit on 24 September 2014.

India’s first Mars Mission on track

ISRO HAS BECOME THE FOURTH SPACE AGENCY TO REACH MARS

It is India’s first interplanetary mission and ISRO has become the fourth

Space Agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and

the European Space Agency. It is also the first nation to reach Mars Orbit on its first attempt, and the first Asian nation to do

so.

ISRO

HISTORY OF THE ‘MOM’ {MARS ORBITER MISSION}

The MOM mission concept began with a feasibility study in 2010, after the launch of lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1 in 2008. The government of India approved the project on 3 August 2012, after the Indian Space Research Organization completed 125 crore of required studies for the orbiter. The total project cost may be up to 454 crore . The satellite costs 153 crore and the rest of the budget has been attributed to ground stations and relay upgrades that will be used for other ISRO projects.