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MANGALYAAN |
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Date-wise Events |
- November 30, 2013: The MOM
probe spent about a month in Earth orbit, where it made a
series of seven apogee-raising orbital manoeuvres before
trans-Mars injection on this day.
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Description |
- The Mangalyaan mission of India is also called The
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)
- It was launched on November 05, 2013 and Mangalyaan
entered the orbit of Mars on September 24, 2014.
- 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.
- The spacecraft is currently being monitored from the
Spacecraft Control Centre at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and
Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bangalore with support from
Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) antennae at Byalalu.
- The total cost of the mission was approximately ₹450 Crore
(US$73 million), making it the least-expensive Mars mission
to date.
- The low cost of the mission was ascribed by K.
Radhakrishnan, the chairman of ISRO, to various factors,
including a "modular approach", few ground tests and long
(18-20 hour) working days for scientists.
- BBC's Jonathan Amos mentioned lower worker costs, home-grown
technologies, simpler design, and significantly less
complicated payload than NASA's MAVEN.
- An opinion piece in The Hindu pointed out that the cost was
equivalent to less than a single bus ride for each of
India's population of 1.2 billion.
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