Mangal Yan enters critical phase. Thruster Motor Test to decide the fate of Mission.

[HariPrasad]

Haey Guys,

Tell us good luck!!

We badly need it.

@Chak Bamu , @Imran Khan, @FaujHistorian , @Irafan Bloach

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Great to know that the motors are working.

Always had an idea that since we can't test our nukes no more on earth. Can we do them on some other planet, accept that this is a little early talk as this is the first time we are reaching a farther planet but is it possible.

Experts please comment.

@Abingdonboy
@sancho

I am guessing testing in Mars comes under Outer space nuclear testing ban

 

[kaykay]

Will India see success in its first ever attempt to Mars? If yes, India will be first country on earth to do so.

 

[sms]

waiting ....

Great to know that the motors are working.

Always had an idea that since we can't test our nukes no more on earth. Can we do them on some other planet, accept that this is a little early talk as this is the first time we are reaching a farther planet but is it possible.

Experts please comment.

@Abingdonboy
@sancho

LOL, you are asking wrong people. They are anti nuke!

Why do we need to test nuke on other planets.. too expansive to transport nuke there and even more expansive to set up data collection network.

By the time human become capable of economically deliver nuke to other planets ..there will be some other type of weapon of doom available at disposal of human race.

 

[sms]

Haey Guys,

Tell us good luck!!

We badly need it.

@Chak Bamu , @Imran Khan, @FaujHistorian , @Irafan Bloach

Aa bail mujhe maar!
Kyon trolling karwa raha hai yaar!

 

[Imran Khan]

Haey Guys,

Tell us good luck!!

We badly need it.

@Chak Bamu , @Imran Khan, @FaujHistorian , @Irafan Bloach

 

[jarves]

Congratulations to all Indians and ISRO.

 

[Sankpal]

Congratulations

 

[GURU DUTT]

koi batayega whats the current status

 

[ExtraOdinary]

koi batayega whats the current status

It has become a satellite of Mars, orbit insertion is complete

 

[GURU DUTT]

It has become a satellite of Mars, orbit insertion is complete

insertion now thats intersting

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Congratulations to nation...........

 

[Brahmos_2]

From ISRO s FB page...


Test Firing of Liquid Engine: Guided by wisdom, Executed by youth

Timeline Photos - ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation | Facebook

 

[TejasMk3]

Mangalyaan will send colour images of Mars from Wednesday - The Times of India

So once the MOI is complete and all goes well, we will have our Mars pic by Wednesday afternoon !

 

[OrionHunter]

It has become a satellite of Mars, orbit insertion is complete

Nope! Not yet! The main liquid engine on the spacecraft was today successfully test fired and its trajectory corrected. The 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engine, idling for the last 300 days on the Mars Orbiter Mission, was fired for four seconds and consumed 0.56 kg of fuel. MOM today entered the Mars Gravitational Sphere of Influence.

The main firing of the LAM will be fired on Wednesday morning to slow the craft for orbit insertion. The orbiter has to be slowed down from 22.1 km per second to 4.4 km per second in relation to the red planet. The engine would be fired for 24 minutes on that day to reduce its velocity and insert it into the Martian orbit.

ISRO has already uploaded commands to help the spacecraft automatically enter orbit.

As India's MOM was on course to its destination, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft began orbiting Mars today. India's MOM has company!!

Way to go ISRO!