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CHENNAI: India's ambitious maiden
inter-planetary voyage Mars Orbiter
Mission (MOM), launched in November
last year, has covered over 21 million
km and as of today is exactly 200 days
away from reaching the red planet's
orbit on September 24.
The MOM probe was travelling with a
helio-centric velocity of 29km per
second and radio signals sent from Isro
Telemetry, Tracking and Command
Network (ISTRAC) ground stations near
Bangalore takes 142 seconds to reach
the spacecraft and return, Isro said.
"If everything goes as planned, MOM
will get inserted into its Martian orbit
around, exactly after 200 days from
today," the space agency said in a
posting on its social networking site
Facebook page.
"MOM team switched 'ON' and checked
all the five scientific instruments on-
board MOM in February 2014. The
health parameters of all these
instruments are normal," Isro said.
The agency has performed six orbit
raising manoeuvres around the Earth
following the launch of the mission on
November 5 last year from Satish
Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota,
some 100 km from here.
It further performed the Trans Mars
Injection (TMI) manoeuvre on
December 1 last, which gave the
necessary thrust to the spacecraft to
escape from Earth and to initiate the
journey towards Mars, in a helio-centric
Orbit.
The first Trajectory Correction
Manoeuvre was conducted on December
11 last year and three such exercises are
planned — next month, in August and
in September.
If India succeeds in sending its mission
to the Mars' orbit, it would become only
the sixth in the world after the US,
Russia, Europe, Japan and China to have
achieved the feat.
India’s Mars mission 200 days away from reaching destination - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site
inter-planetary voyage Mars Orbiter
Mission (MOM), launched in November
last year, has covered over 21 million
km and as of today is exactly 200 days
away from reaching the red planet's
orbit on September 24.
The MOM probe was travelling with a
helio-centric velocity of 29km per
second and radio signals sent from Isro
Telemetry, Tracking and Command
Network (ISTRAC) ground stations near
Bangalore takes 142 seconds to reach
the spacecraft and return, Isro said.
"If everything goes as planned, MOM
will get inserted into its Martian orbit
around, exactly after 200 days from
today," the space agency said in a
posting on its social networking site
Facebook page.
"MOM team switched 'ON' and checked
all the five scientific instruments on-
board MOM in February 2014. The
health parameters of all these
instruments are normal," Isro said.
The agency has performed six orbit
raising manoeuvres around the Earth
following the launch of the mission on
November 5 last year from Satish
Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota,
some 100 km from here.
It further performed the Trans Mars
Injection (TMI) manoeuvre on
December 1 last, which gave the
necessary thrust to the spacecraft to
escape from Earth and to initiate the
journey towards Mars, in a helio-centric
Orbit.
The first Trajectory Correction
Manoeuvre was conducted on December
11 last year and three such exercises are
planned — next month, in August and
in September.
If India succeeds in sending its mission
to the Mars' orbit, it would become only
the sixth in the world after the US,
Russia, Europe, Japan and China to have
achieved the feat.
India’s Mars mission 200 days away from reaching destination - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site
