India make History, Mars Orbiter Spacecraft Successfully placed in Mars Transfer

[anjaneyashruti]

The most difficult stage would be Mars orbit insertion maneuver. The MOM has to fire its braking rockets to be captured into Mars orbit and the rocket will have to be restarted after bring dormant for almost 300days in cold space.

You are no where close to understanding what the most difficult stage is.

Try to Imagine a marble-1 kept on top of a moving car. Now try to imagine you are sitting in another moving car which is 10 km away and you throw another marble-2 and try to hit marble-1.

That is how tough the mission is. India has just thrown marble-2. So far we have only managed to throw the marble in the general direction of the moving car 10 km away. It is yet to reach anywhere near the vicinity of the other moving car. That itself is a great feat.

But to actually hit the marble-1 sitting on top of that car !!!!!! Calculate the probability of that happening. It is less than 1 in 1 billion or more.

 

[HunterKiller]

Time to give a reply to West ..

Time to tell the British that their money is not so wasted ...

 

[blood]

congrats to isro and all my fellow countrymen!..
this is a great achievement !

 

[[Bregs]]

Well done ISRO congrats ! DRDO needs to learn few tips from it

 

[OrionHunter]

But MAVEN will arrive earlier.

Damn! We should have put Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel on board!!

 

[[Bregs]]

Isro's Mars mission enters second stage; outpaces China - The Times of India

 

[li0nheart]

Again ISRO make us proud.I am proud to be Indian

I have some doubt.India is first country that successfully perform trans-martian injection at it maiden
interplanetary mission.Am I right?.Please reply.

No and Yes!!

First maiden successful interplanetary mission is Mars Express by European Space Agency (ESA).
Which is an intergovernmental organisation of 20 member states.
Mars Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So, India will be first individual country with successful maiden interplanetary mission, if we successfully perform trans-martian injection.
.

 

[blood]

Well done ISRO congrats ! DRDO needs to learn few tips from it

DRDO is just talk , ISRO are doers

but still we must support them and encourage them with better funding.

 

[faithfulguy]

Again ISRO make us proud.I am proud to be Indian

I have some doubt.India is first country that successfully perform trans-martian injection at it maiden
interplanetary mission.Am I right?.Please reply.

This is an Indian achievement independent of what others have done. Its pointless to compare with others as few countries had ever tried this voyage.

 

[Echo_419]

DRDO is just talk , ISRO are doers

but still we must support them and encourage them with better funding.

I very surprised why nobody is thanking the Brits
It is their money we are using

 

[OrionHunter]

You are no where close to understanding what the most difficult stage is.

Try to Imagine a marble-1 kept on top of a moving car. Now try to imagine you are sitting in another moving car which is 10 km away and you throw another marble-2 and try to hit marble-1.

That is how tough the mission is. India has just thrown marble-2. So far we have only managed to throw the marble in the general direction of the moving car 10 km away. It is yet to reach anywhere near the vicinity of the other moving car. That itself is a great feat.

But to actually hit the marble-1 sitting on top of that car !!!!!! Calculate the probability of that happening. It is less than 1 in 1 billion or more.

Sorry for bursting your logic bubble, but it's not a game of marbles or poker here! It's not about probabilities at all. It is a totally scientific and mathematical approach keeping the complexities of orbital and celestial mechanics in view.

And that entails some mind boggling calculations on powerful computers to calculate trajectories not only around the Earth but also around the Sun and countering the gravitational forces acting on the spacecraft by other planetary bodies during its journey to Mars which would prompt ground controllers to initiate course corrections from the data received from on- board instruments.

I suggest you have a peek at the link below. It's not just a game of marbles or a wild punch in the dark, hoping for a knock-out. It's all about hardcore calculations. One mistake there and it's curtains......

Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics

 

[Parul]

I wish the Mars mission all success. Hope it reaches the Martian orbit and achieves all its goals. The mission has the potential of igniting interest in Science among young students, very essential in the Technology age we live in. I hope this is the first and important step in opening up the lucrative global Space market for ISRO.

 

[GR!FF!N]

I very surprised why nobody is thanking the Brits
It is their money we are using

LOL..lets not give them any chance to claim that its "British Mission outsourced to India"..

@WebMaster @Aeronaut @Oscar @Manticore

there are 3-4 parallel threads running on same topic(one of it is mine ).please merge them.

 

[Kill-The-Enemy]

Well done ISRO.

JAI HIND!

 

[Glorino]

All Asian newspapers and major foreign news-sites carried MOM news on 1-12-2013

Just checked China,s press like Peoples Daily,Global Times,China Daily.Nine of these newpapers online have reported the success of India,s Mars Orbiter leaving the earth's orbit towards Mars.
What is wrong with such Chinese childish mentality?