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India May Be Heading To Mars

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The Hindustan Times is reporting that the Indian government is expected to approve a proposal for the country to send its first ever probe to Mars. India’s Space Commission gave its approval for the project last December, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is reportedly on board as well.

Assuming all government approvals are obtained for the launch, India would be set to begin its mission in November of 2013, with an expected arrival time in September of 2014. The probe would be launched by India’s own Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The probe isn’t intended to land on Mars – it would be an orbital probe, much like the Chandrayaan-1. That probe was the first that India sent to orbit the Moon, and also had the distinction of being the first probe to confirm the existence of water on the Moon’s surface.

But even an orbiting probe presents a difficult challenge. Missions to Mars have large failure rate – out of 38 attempts, only 19 have succeeded. If India is successful, however, it would be the third country to conduct a successful Mars mission. The Soviet Union had the first success, followed by the United States. After the Soviet Union fell, all of Russia’s planned missions to Mars failed. And although the Chinese space program has generally been a success, its first Martian orbiter failed as a result of the failure of the Russian Phobos-Grunt mission.

A successful mission, however, would be a huge leap forward for India’s space program, which to date has seen a lot of great success in satellite launches. One of the goals for India’s launch here is to ensure that the country has a loud voice when it comes to future international discussions about Mars.

India May Be Heading To Mars - Forbes
 
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If this mission is successfull it would be a big boost to our space program raising the morale of isro and its scientists
 
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Indian govt should first try to fix electricity problem on earth then go to Mars... hahaha

Nothing personnel or anti-India or anything .... just wanted to write this.

It Was A Grid Failure & everything has been restored :tup:. As it is fixed, so lets give go ahead to Mission Mars.
 
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Manned mission to Mars would be logical next step. But first let this probe reach Mars
 
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Indian govt should first try to fix electricity problem on earth then go to Mars... hahaha

Nothing personnel or anti-India or anything .... just wanted to write this.
If u dont know about how things work then its better to just shut your trap .
It basically was a power grid failure which is termed as blackout .
It happened in 2008 in USA and it took 96 hours for them to restore power , while in India improvements were shown just by the 6th hour itself , BEAT THAT !!! :wave:
Nothing personal or anti-German :lol:
 
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That would be technologic marvel if India manages to leave its footprints behind mars .
However i think it is a very ambitious project , but the thing is i lay full trust upon Isro after there Chandrayaan mission :tup:

What will India do there alone.....lets take Pakistan along :D:
No lets take only veena malik
 
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