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Almost 28 hours prior to the historic moment of launching its Orbiter to Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said that it has started preparing for propellant filling operation of Second Stage (PS2) in the spacecraft, which will carry Mangalyaan to the Mars.

“Mandatory checks and preparation for propellant filling operation of Second Stage (PS2) of PSLV C25 launch vehicle for ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission are in progress,” said Isro officials.

On Sunday, at 6.08 am sharp at Sriharikota, the final 56-and-a-half-hour countdown for the launch of India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) started. The Rs 450-crore Mars mission is slated for lift-off at 2.38pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, located on the island of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. On November 1, Isro’s launch authorisation board had given the final green signal for the launch of the MOM.

Despite the cyclone threat on the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, which is heading towards Sri Lanka, the spacecraft will take off as planned as the weather is fine in the Andhra Pradesh coast, where Sriharikota located. Isro officials added weather is fine.

India will be the sixth country, after US, Russia, China, Japan and the European Union, to launch a Mars mission. Once launched, the satellite is expected to take more than 40 minutes to get injected into Earth’s orbit.

The orbiter will remain in Earth orbit till December 1 when it starts its 300-day voyage to Mars. It is expected to reach the orbit of the red planet on September 24, 2014, after traversing 400 million km.

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India is all set for its maiden Mars mission with its satellite, Mangalyaan, scheduled for a lift-off in the afternoon today from the balmy space port of Sriharikota in coastal Andhra Pradesh.
The countdown for the launch is progressing normally. With the weather forecast clear and no space debris expected to come in the way of the satellite, the lift-off is likely to take place on time at 2:38 pm. The rocket is fully fuelled and health checks are being undertaken even as hundreds of scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO spent a sleepless night toiling to work against a stiff deadline. Some 1000 scientists worked during Diwali to ensure all systems are fully ready. (India’s mission to Mars: full coverage)
The Mars orbiting mission is an unmanned space craft costing Rs. 450 crore and this first inter-planetary mission by India will study the thin Martian atmosphere after its year-long journey of more than 780 million kilometres.

The mission was fast-tracked and completed in a record 15 months. It was ISRO’s 100 metre dash and it now embarks on the long marathon to Mars.

The satellite will be hurled into

space using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on an unconventional trajectory where it will first circle the earth and then spend nine months on its long journey to rendezvous with Mars. After a tricky operation it will be captured by the gravity of Mars where it will spend six months studying Mars and announcing to the world India’s arrival near the Red Planet.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 15, 2012 announced the bold conception of Mangalyaan from the ramparts of the Red Fort while addressing the nation on Independence Day. “Our spaceship will go near Mars and collect important scientific information. This Mangalyaan will be a huge step for us in the area of science and technology,” he had said.

Some critics of the mission believe the government is being profligate by going to Mars when there is rampant poverty in the country. “We have heard these arguments since the 1960s about India being a poor country, not needing or affording a space program. If we can’t dare dream big it would leave us as hewers of wood and drawers of water! India is today too big to be just living on the fringes of high technology,’ said a top government official.

ISRO says the satellite which will be placed in an elliptic orbit around Mars and will carry 15 kg of scientific instruments. According to ISRO, the objectives of the mission are to focus on remotely assessing “life, climate, geology, origin and evolution and sustainability of life on the planet”. “This is a technology demonstration project, a mission that will announce to the world India has the capability to reach as far away as Mars’ says K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of ISRO.

Since 1960, there have been 51 missions to Mars with just about a third of them being successful; attempts have been made by the former USSR and Russia, USA, Europe, Japan and China. The first Chinese mission to Mars called Yinghuo-1 failed in 2011 so some believe that India is trying to march ahead in what has been described as the twenty first century ‘Asian Space Race’.

After the successful maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 the natural stepping stone for India was to try to reach Mars. K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of ISRO, Bangalore said: “This mars mission is a historical necessity, after having helped find water on the moon, looking for signatures of life on mars is a natural progression. India is now demonstrating its capability to undertake inter-planetary travel with end to end technological prowess in space”.

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ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission has been launched successfully.:tup:
 
Congratulation to all!

Still a long way to go but an excellent start to the mission.
 
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“We have put all our efforts for the development of GSLV”, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said. “The assembly of GSLV is going on at Sriharikota. It started on October 18. Now, the launch is scheduled for December 15th”.

The maiden flight testing of the indigenous cryogenic engine and stage conducted in GSLV-D3 on April 15, 2010, failed.

ISRO made another attempt on August 19 this year but the the launch was called off as a leak was observed in the UH25 fuel system of the liquid second stage during the pre-launch pressurisation phase on the vehicle just two hours before the scheduled lift-off.

GSLV is a three stage vehicle. GSLV is 49 metre tall, with 414 tonne lift off weight. First stage comprises S125 solid booster with four liquid (L40) strap-ons. Second stage (GS2) is liquid engine and the third stage (GS3) is a cryostage.

The cryostage is more efficient compared to the liquid stage in PSLV. This means that the thrust developed by burning each kg of propellant is higher in cryo engine, hence can place larger payloads with higher weight into orbit. “Cryo stage as final stage is hence essential for a launcher with higher payload capacity”, an ISRO official said.

PSLV is capable of launching 1600 kg satellites in 620 km sun-synchronous polar orbit and 1050 kg satellite in geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).

“This poses a serious limitation on launching communication satellites which are heavier. The GSLV will be capable of launching satellites which are 2000 kg – 2500 kg which matches with the GSAT class of Communication satellites”, it was noted.

Currently, India is forced to outsource the heavy launch services from abroad which is not a cost effective solution The establishment of a proven GSLV launcher is the need of the hour. The successful development of indigenous cryostage will boost India’s confidence in terms of its self reliance in the launch capability, ISRO officials said.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday rehearsed a series of six manoeuvres, simulating the raising of the apogee of its Mars orbiter which the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25) put into earth-bound orbit of 247 km x 23,566 km on Tuesday.


The rehearsal took place from the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) station in Bangalore. These manoeuvres were rehearsed without actually firing the 440 Newton engine on board the Mars orbiter. In reality, the first of these orbit-raising manoeuvres will take place at 1.50 a.m. on Thursday and the last on December 1. Commands will go out from the ISTRAC station to the spacecraft to fire the 440 Newton engine for raising the apogee.



The engine will be fired when the Mars orbiter is at its perigee so that the apogee will become more elliptical. The D-day is on December 1 when a prolonged firing of the 440 Newton engine will catapult the Mars orbiter out of the earth-centric orbit into the sun-centric orbit. Then the orbiter will coast around the Sun for nine months and finally captured into the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014.



M. Annadurai, Programme Director, Indian Remote-Sensing Satellites (IRS) and Small Satellites Systems (SSS), ISRO, said on Wednesday, “We did the rehearsal of everything today in a controlled way except firing the engine and we have come back to the normal.” India’s Mars Orbiter Mission comes under the IRS programme. When the 440 Newton engine aboard the Mars spacecraft is fired on Thursday at 1.50 a.m, the apogee will be raised to 28,793 km. However, its present perigee of 247 km will more or less remain the same. “The six firings will be done when the orbiter is in the perigee. The whole sequence has been rehearsed. We monitored whether everything went well,” he said.



Spacecraft’s health normal



“The overall health of the spacecraft is normal. Systems on the orbiter such as gyros, accelerometer and star-sensors have been calibrated. In the spacecraft, everything is working normally,” Dr. Annadurai said. ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan told a press conference at Sriharikota on October 30 that after the Mars orbiter’s apogee is raised first on November 7 to 28,793 km, the second firing of the engine will take place on November 8 early morning. This second firing will take the orbiter’s apogee to about 40,000 km from the earth. The third orbit-raising operation will take place on November 9 when the apogee will be boosted to about 70,656 km. The fourth orbit-raising operation will take place on November 11 when the apogee will reach about one lakh km. The fifth manoeuvre will be done on November 16 when the apogee will reach 1.99 lakh km from the earth.



Dr. Radhakrishnan added: “We will then a have a crucial event — the trans-Martian injection [of the orbiter] from the earth-orbit towards Mars, which will take place at 0042 hours on December 1. This is the immediate action programme for the Mars orbiter. We have a long voyage of 300 days.



On September 24, 2014, we are planning to have the Mars orbit insertion of the spacecraft. Once it is successfully done, we will go for the experiments.”



The orbiter has five scientific instruments for analysing the Mars’ surface features, to find out whether it has methane and to study its mineralogy and the atmosphere.

ISRO rehearses orbit-raising manoeuvres for Mars orbiter | idrw.org
 
The third of the total of five orbit raising manoeuvres of the Mars Orbiter spacecraft was performed early this morning, raising its apogee, the farthest point from Earth, to over 71,000 km.

The manoeuvre started at 2:10 AM today and raised the spacecraft’s apogee from 40,186 km to 71,636 km with a burn time of 707 seconds, ISRO said.

The space agency had performed the first two manoeuvres in the last couple of days, in the series of five scheduled on the Mars mission.

The fourth and fifth operations would be performed on November 11 and 16 to raise the apogee to 1,00,000 km and 1,92,000 km respectively.

After the successful completion of these operations, the mission is expected to take on the “crucial event” of the trans-Mars injection around 12.42 AM on December 1.

ISRO’s PSLV C 25 successfully injected the 1,350-kg Mangalyaan Orbiter (spacecraft) into orbit around Earth about 44 minutes after a textbook launch at 2.38 PM from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Tuesday, marking the successful completion of the first stage of the Rs 450-crore mission.

Third orbit raising manoeuvre on Mars Orbiter performed | idrw.org
 
i still think we should have invested this 450 crore in gslv
 
i still think we should have invested this 450 crore in gslv

We can invest in both. Doesn't have to be one or the other.

The learnings from this mission can help in larger/more complex missions later.
 
u think s
We can invest in both. Doesn't have to be one or the other.

The learnings from this mission can help in larger/more complex missions later.

really??

because isro's budget is only 1 billion dollars and its far too small to keep on doing everything.
and by the way gslv is india's future..................without it we are dependant on others,,,,so all the teams should have been working on that only,we can always plan these missions in the future but gslv is needed for heavier satellites as soon as possible.

besides payload on mom is only like 20 kg or something so in reality it would have been better had we done this mission with gslv in 2016 window as it would have used way bigger and useful payload.


anyone is free to disagree but the fact remains that this mission has little importance except for the pride
 
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