India’s Mars mission: The countdown begins for ISRO’s voyage to the Red Pla

[Gandhi G in da house]

Meanwhile a billion Indians are starving without food and clean water. India is one of the poorest countries in the world yet they waste their money on useless projects just for ego. This is clearly a regime that don't know where it's priority lies. How about use this money to improve the lives of the people of India.

Mars missions, Moon missions, buying expensive weapons from western defense companies. These are the actions of a country that runs massive budget deficits not to improve the lives of its people but to show off.

Pathetic. Feel so sad for the children of India that is crying and waiting for their next meal.

To make it worse the Indian regime uses Aid given from Britain for these space missions and buying weapons.

Shut up liar Chini.

 

[Brahmos_2]

Meanwhile a billion Indians are starving without food and clean water. India is one of the poorest countries in the world yet they waste their money on useless projects just for ego. This is clearly a regime that don't know where it's priority lies. How about use this money to improve the lives of the people of India.

Mars missions, Moon missions, buying expensive weapons from western defense companies. These are the actions of a country that runs massive budget deficits not to improve the lives of its people but to show off.

Pathetic. Feel so sad for the children of India that is crying and waiting for their next meal.

To make it worse the Indian regime uses Aid given from Britain for these space missions and buying weapons.

Hay troll...just STFU..

Dont you know that India's poverty is just a state of mind....

 

[INDIC]

Myth?

Go learn history kid and stop believing the brainwashing propaganda spewed by your regime. Learn to think for yourself and read history.

Even fairly tales are more real than Chinese version of history.

 

[Vinod2070]

Myth?

Go learn history kid and stop believing the brainwashing propaganda spewed by your regime. Learn to think for yourself and read history.

Zombi bhai. Just leave the thread. Don't pollute it any more.

Don't even visit it, leave alone post on it!

Got it?

 

[Mech]

India's First Mission to Mars to Launch This Month

India's first spacecraft bound for Mars is counting down toward a late October launch, a mission that — if successful — could make the country's space agency one of the elite few of space powers to have explored the Red Planet.

The Indian Space Research Organization's Mangalyaan spacecraft, or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) probe, has arrived at the country’s Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota to be put atop an already stacked and awaiting Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The spacecraft is designed to photograph the Martian surface from orbit and search for signs of methane in the planet's atmosphere, be it expelled by non-biological or microbial sources.

India's Mars orbiter launch window opens on Oct. 28 and closes on Nov. 19, with the arrival at the Red Planet targeted for September 2014. If all goes well, India would become the fourth country (or group of countries) to reach Mars, after the former Soviet Union, the United States and Europe. [India's First Mars Mission (Photos)]

Other countries have tried to reach Mars and failed. Japan's Nozomi Mars spacecraft failed in its bid to orbit the planet in 1999, while China's Yinghuo-1 Mars orbiter was destroyed when its carrier spacecraft — Russia's Phobos-Grunt — failed to leave Earth orbit in 2011.

India aims for Mars

As India's first Mars mission, the Mangalyaan probe's major objectives are both technological as well as scientific.

First, the Mars orbiter showcases the country's spacecraft-building and operations acumen. Second, the probe carries a high-tech suite of sensors to explore the Red Planet's surface features, morphology, mineralogy and Martian atmosphere using indigenous scientific instruments.

Mangalyaan's anticipated on-orbit mission life is between six and 10 months. The spacecraft structure and propulsion hardware configurations are similar to Chandrayaan 1, India's successful first robotic lunar probe that operated from 2008 to 2009, with specific improvements and upgrades needed for a Mars specific mission, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). [How India's First Mars Mission Works (Infographic)]

The Mars Orbiter Mission will carry five payloads into Mars orbit:

Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP): Measures the Deuterium to Hydrogen abundance radio to assess the loss process of water from the planet.
Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS): Provides a map of the composition and mineralogy of the Martian surface, operating day and night.
Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer (MENCA): Studies the neutral composition of the Martian upper atmosphere.
Mars Color Camera (MCC): Images the topography of the Martian surface, keeping an orbiting eye on dynamic events and weather of Mars and will also be used for snapping pictures of the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.
Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM): Measures the Martian atmosphere on the lookout for methane (CH4) at several parts per billion levels and maps its sources. Data is acquired only over an illuminated scene as the sensor measures reflected solar radiation.
The Martian hunt for methane

Recent missions to Mars have provided ample direct evidence on Mars for hydrated minerals on the surface, and of water at subsurface regions, said Jitendra Nath Goswami, director of ISRO's Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

The possible presence of methane has been proposed, but only based on limited observations, Goswami added. But mysteries remain, including whether such methane emissions are sporadic or localized on Mars, and what their actual sources are, Goswami explained in a co-authored paper on the Indian Mars mission presented earlier this year at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston.

Whether the Mars atmosphere actually contains traces of methane (or not) has been pursued for many years. The reason is that sniffing out the methane could be a prospective sign of microbial life. However, it also can be produced without biology via geological processes, or by ultraviolet degradation of organic material delivered by the fall of meteorites, or even an inoculation of interplanetary dust particles.

The hunt for methane on Mars took a hit in September when scientists announced that observations from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover indicated that the Martian environment lacks the much-sought gas. This was deemed as a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and international scientists indicated positive detections.

Mars arrivals of 2014

India's Mangalyaan spacecraft won't be the only newcomer at the Red Planet in 2014. In addition to the Indian probe, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission (MAVEN) is also expected to begin its own mission in orbit around the planet next year.


NASA plans to launch MAVEN toward Mars on Nov. 18 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The probe should arrive in Mars orbit in September 2014 like India's Mangalyaan.

"As I understand it, they [India] have a broad range of science instruments, and some of them will have synergy with MAVEN science," Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN's lead scientist based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, told SPACE.com. "We've had an initial discussion with them of potential collaboration, but have not made any detailed plans yet for coordination."

"MOMs" of the world unite!

India's Mars Orbiter Mission "fits well within the scientific strategy of a global campaign to understand Mars as a system, with geology, climate, and ultimately 'life' as goals," said James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and a member of the Mars rover Curiosity's imaging science team.

In Garvin's view, "Mars will always require a diversified set of vantage points and sensor systems," and India's Mangalyaan mission could contribute to some of the important questions about Mars that, so far, have yet to be addressed at the surface, or from Martian orbit and Earth-based observations.

"I am excited by India's MOM mission to Mars and suspect that its methane sensor will provide very interesting new observations that can be tied to those from Curiosity, Europe's ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas orbiter, and to those from Earth-based systems," Garvin told SPACE.com.

"Mars is waiting," Garvin said, "and we should not let her down!" Garvin added that over his 30 year career as a NASA Mars scientist, and while in graduate school at Brown University, he has never witnessed a time when researchers were not surprised by what Mars had to offer.

"And after all, who could not root for 'MOM?'," Garvin said. "I always root for the Moms of the world."

India's First Mars Orbiter Ready for Red Planet Duty | Space.com

 

[Indo-guy]

In my opinion they should have waited. GSLV was not working out so what wait 2 4 or 6 years until you have the ability to launch heavier vehicles. 500kgs payload on GSLV to a mere 15kg on PSLV. It is not worth it. NASA's MAVEN in November 2013 hopefully will weigh massive 900kgs. We should just ask US for tech transfer

Mars orbiter mission will give us crucial experience in developing challenging technology required to undertake inter-planetary missions...

This is recce mission ....this is a test mission ....this is technology demonstrator mission ....

why do you want to take big -bite in first go ?

Journey of thousand miles begins with single step ....

It is prudent to undertake low profile ...mission at first time....

I would have preferred ISRO to undertake Chandrayan-2 before Mars mission ...

Even then I would second this mission though the decision to push this mission ahead of Chandrayaan-2 was completely political ....

I am sure ISRO must have weighed in all repercussions while undertaking this mission ....before toeing line of political masters ....

the fact that ISRO got ready within 2 years for such mission ...is in itself encouraging sign of ISRO's capability ...

 

[Vinod2070]

Waiting eagerly for 9 Nov...

All the best to all Indians and ISRO...

 

[gslv mk3]

 

[Chronos]

Meanwhile a billion Indians are starving without food and clean water. India is one of the poorest countries in the world yet they waste their money on useless projects just for ego. This is clearly a regime that don't know where it's priority lies. How about use this money to improve the lives of the people of India.

Mars missions, Moon missions, buying expensive weapons from western defense companies. These are the actions of a country that runs massive budget deficits not to improve the lives of its people but to show off.

Pathetic. Feel so sad for the children of India that is crying and waiting for their next meal.

To make it worse the Indian regime uses Aid given from Britain for these space missions and buying weapons.


I am so sick and tired of this argument posited by foreigners. Yes India has poverty and needs to do something about it. But that doesn't mean we have to scrap scientific projects. We shouldn't crush the dreams and aspirations of our best and brightest in the name od 'poverty alleviation.'

And stop pretending you care about the poor in India. The only reason people like you ever bring them up is to insult India and remind us of our place in the world. The poor people deserve to be treated as mere props in a jingoistic argument in a pakistan military thread.

Guess what, the poor in India work their asses of to make sure their children become scientists like the ISRO, doctors, engineers.

 

[Chronos]

Oh wait, LightningBolt is a Chinese poster?

I take my criticism back. I expect arrogance and lack of civility as par for the course in these boards from them anyway.

Never have I met a group of posters who are uniformly racist, arrogant and lacks respect whatsoever.

Which is a surprise because they are such pushovers in real life.

That also explains why a lot of their women are leaving them for western men, because they probably can't tolerate the parochial BS that just oozes out of their mouth.

Oh and...

 

[neehar]

Meanwhile a billion Indians are starving without food and clean water. India is one of the poorest countries in the world yet they waste their money on useless projects just for ego. This is clearly a regime that don't know where it's priority lies. How about use this money to improve the lives of the people of India.

Mars missions, Moon missions, buying expensive weapons from western defense companies. These are the actions of a country that runs massive budget deficits not to improve the lives of its people but to show off.

Pathetic. Feel so sad for the children of India that is crying and waiting for their next meal.

To make it worse the Indian regime uses Aid given from Britain for these space missions and buying weapons.

our plan exenditure i.e for development activities is $91 billion u think a mere 71 millions makes a difference??before showing some one else's fault first solve yours.india is already a world leader in agriculture and is capable of feeding its citizens the problem is not money the problem is our pds must be revaitalized and for that u need political will.next year theres gonna be an election and people will choose the best person for the job.and we dont need their aid.they looted trillions from our country a mere millions are just peanuts..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ndia-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html
http://articles.timesofindia.indiat...d-international-development-secretary-end-aid

 

[Vinod2070]

Funny thing is that it is their own country that has killed the most numbers in famine in history and after WW-2.

The zombies may jump up and down like buffoons, they are behind Botswana and Toga still.

You don't see the Africans who are ahead of them jumping here, you see the zombies do that all the time.

When this primitive funny bunch tries to act racist, one can only laugh.

Meanwhile a billion Indians are starving without food and clean water. India is one of the poorest countries in the world yet they waste their money on useless projects just for ego. This is clearly a regime that don't know where it's priority lies. How about use this money to improve the lives of the people of India.

Mars missions, Moon missions, buying expensive weapons from western defense companies. These are the actions of a country that runs massive budget deficits not to improve the lives of its people but to show off.

Pathetic. Feel so sad for the children of India that is crying and waiting for their next meal.

To make it worse the Indian regime uses Aid given from Britain for these space missions and buying weapons.

I am so sick and tired of this argument posited by foreigners. Yes India has poverty and needs to do something about it. But that doesn't mean we have to scrap scientific projects. We shouldn't crush the dreams and aspirations of our best and brightest in the name od 'poverty alleviation.'

And stop pretending you care about the poor in India. The only reason people like you ever bring them up is to insult India and remind us of our place in the world. The poor people deserve to be treated as mere props in a jingoistic argument in a pakistan military thread.

Guess what, the poor in India work their asses of to make sure their children become scientists like the ISRO, doctors, engineers.

 

[INDIC]

I am so sick and tired of this argument posited by foreigners. Yes India has poverty and needs to do something about it. But that doesn't mean we have to scrap scientific projects. We shouldn't crush the dreams and aspirations of our best and brightest in the name od 'poverty alleviation.'

And stop pretending you care about the poor in India. The only reason people like you ever bring them up is to insult India and remind us of our place in the world. The poor people deserve to be treated as mere props in a jingoistic argument in a pakistan military thread.

Guess what, the poor in India work their asses of to make sure their children become scientists like the ISRO, doctors, engineers.

You don't need to give explanation these Chinese who become nuclear power after the death of 45 Million due to hunger. Why Chinese were dying of hunger and their leaders were wasting money on nuclear weapons.