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ISRO’S MANGALYAANMARS ORbIteR MISSION (MOM)

Hearty congratulations and best wishes to ISRO team on Mangalyaan's success; nation proud of this historic achievement.—Pranab Mukherjee, President of India

Through your achievements, you have honoured our forefathers, and inspired our future generations.—Prime Minister Narendra Modi

India earns its admirable position in the world as one of the pioneering space exploring nations with Mangalyaan. — Sonia Gandhi,

Congress President

Congratulations to ISRO scientists who successfully launched India’s Mangalyaan into Mars orbit. They have scripted history today!—Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister

We congratulate @ISRO for its Mars arrival! @MarsOrbiter joins the missions studying the Red Planet. #JourneyToMars— National Aeronautics &

Space Administration (NASA)

Congratulations to @ISRO @MarsOrbiter on successful orbit insertion around #Mars, welcome to the club!—european Space Agency (eSA)

Mars position, December 1, 2013

Departure from Earth, December 1, 2013

Earth position, September 24, 2014

Mars orbit insertion (MOI),September 24, 2014, at

07:30 hrs (IST)

Earth orbit

Sun

Mars orbit

224 million km

666 million km

Mars orbiter trajectory

trans Mars Injection (tMI): December 1, 2013, at 00:49 hrs (IST)

Midcourse Corrections1. December 11, 20132. April 2014 (June 11, 2014)3. August 2014 (Not required)4. September 14, 2014 (September 22, 2014)

ISRO’s mission cost around 11 per cent of NASA’s Maven mission.

HIStORIC LOG(from 1980 onwards)

ISRO became the world’s first organisation to reach Mars in its first attempt.

Launch Year Name Country Result Reason

1988 Phobos 1 USSR Failure Lost en route to Mars Orbiter

1988 Phobos 2 USSR Failure Lost near Phobos Orbiter/Lander

1992 Mars Observer US Failure Lost prior to Mars arrival

1996 Mars Global US Success More images than all Surveyor Mars Missions

1996 Mars 96 Russia Failure Launch vehicle failure

1996 Mars US Success Technology Pathfinder experiment lasting 5 times longer than warranty

1998 Nozomi Japan Failure No orbit insertion

1998 Mars Climate US Failure Lost on arrival Orbiter

1999 Mars Polar US Failure Lost on arrival Lander

1999 Deep Space 2 US Failure Lost on arrival Probes (2)

2001 Mars Odyssey US Success High resolution images of Mars

2003 Mars Express ESA Success/ Orbiter imaging Orbiter/Beagle 2 Lander Failure Mars in detail and lander lost on arrival

2003 Mars Exploration US Success Operating lifetime of Rover - Spirit more than 15 times original warranty

2003 Mars Exploration US Success Operating lifetime of Rover - Opportunity more than 15 times original warranty

2005 Mars US Success Returned more than Reconnaissance 26 terabits of data Orbiter (more than all other Mars missions combined)

2007 Phoenix Mars US Success Returned more than Lander 25 gigabits of data

2011 Mars Science US Success Exploring Mars’ Laboratory habitability

2011 Phobos-Grunt/ Russia/China Failure Stranded in Earth Yinghuo-1 orbit

2013 Mars US Success Studying the Martian Atmosphere and atmosphere Volatile Evolution

2013 Mars Orbiter India Success Develop inter- Mission (MOM) planetary techno- logies and explore Mars’ surface features, mineralogy and atmosphere.

Source: NASA

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Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)

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Sp’s avIaTION 10/2014

One of the first images of the surface of Mars taken by the Mangalyaan on September 25, 2014.

Also refer to the article on page 10 of SP’s Aviation

10/2014

Regional dust storm activities over northern hemisphere of Mars – captured by Mars Colour Camera onboard the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft from an altitude of 74,500 km on September 28, 2014.