MOM Enters Mars orbit

[HariPrasad]

Congrats!!!!!

 

[Jai_Hind]

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[HariPrasad]

 

[Cherokee]

 

[HariPrasad]

We demonstrated our capability to achieve complex mission with very limited resources.

ndia creates history, keeps date with Mars
Arun Ram & Chethan Kumar,TNN | Sep 24, 2014, 07.42 AM IST

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CHENNAI: India created history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.

Indian Space Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47am, but it was only 12 minutes later —because of a time delay in radio signals travelling the 680 million km -- that scientists at Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore, could erupt in joy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood a happy witness.

For most of the time the main engine was firing — 20 of the 24 crucial minutes — MOM was hiding behind Mars, adding to the suspense.

The scientists had waited for more than 300 days as MOM journeyed on through space, but the last 54 minutes were virtually unbearable. For, it was during this period that the orbiter first reoriented itself and then fired its engine and thrusters for about 24 minutes to get into the Mars orbit.

For all the action at the ground station, there was not much the scientists had to do. More than 10 days ago, they had uplinked all the commands for the manoeuvres to the spacecraft. MOM, like an obedient child, carried them out perfectly.

For many months -- if not years -- MOM will remain a satellite of Mars, clicking pictures and sniffing out details on the atmosphere and morphology of the red planet.

Through its journey since November 5, 2013 when PSLV-C25 lifted off from Sriharikota with the spacecraft in its nosecone, MOM has had a perfect journey. The first litmus test came on Monday when it was to carry out time-tagged commands to reignite its main engine which had been idling for about 300 days since it left the Earth orbit on December 1, 2013. MOM did this in style, burning for the designated four seconds to show that the engine is in fine shape. On Wednesday, it proved its resilience.

As it goes around Mars on an elliptical orbit with the closest point around 420km and the farthest around 80,000km, MOM will employ five equipment that collectively weight 15kg to do scientific studies.

The Lyman alpha photometer would measure the relative abundance of deuterium and hydrogen in the upper Martian atmosphere to understand previous presence of water on the red planet. A methane sensor will look for sources of the gas. While the Mars colour camera clicks away, a thermal infrared spectrometer will study heat emission, minerals and soil on Mars.

Before India, various countries have launched Mars missions, but out of the 51 attempts, only 21 were successful. India now joins the Martian club that comprises the US, Russia and the European Space Agency. Only the European Space Agency has got its orbiter right in the first attempt (Mars Express in 2003), but India can claim a first since the agency is a conglomeration of several countries.

 

[HariPrasad]

 

[ito]

India became only the fourth nation/space program to reach Mars (behind the former Soviet Union, NASA, and the European Space Agency).

 

[HariPrasad]

Har Har Mahadev!!!!!!!

JAi Mataji!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HariPrasad]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses ISRO scientists and the country on the success of Mangalyaan. He congratulates the scientists and the country on this historic ocassion.

Narendra Modi: History has been created, we have dared to reach out to the unknown. India has created history today, We have reached which was nearly impossible.

The odds, were stacked against us. Of the 51 missions, attempted across the world so far, a mere 21 had succeeded. But we have prevailed.

Travelling more than 650 million kms, we have gone beyond the boundaries of human imagination. India joins an elite group of just three organisations around the world We have put together the mission within just three years of testing its feasibility

Our scientists have achieved this at a cost which is lesser than some Hollywood movies. Built it indigenously, in a pan-Indian effort, stretching from Bangalore to Bhubhaneshwar, and Faridabad to Rajkot.

None of the nations have been successful in maiden attempt, India is only country which has been successful in its very first attempt.

These, are all accomplishments, that will go down as landmarks, in history. Indian space agency's low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red planet's
orbit on Wednesday, crowning India as the first country to execute such a project in its maiden attempt.

 

[HariPrasad]

 

[DrSomnath999]

YEAH
i just cant resist to sing this song
Mangal mangal mangal ho from mangal pandey film

 

[HariPrasad]

We proved That
1 We have best physicists
2. we are master of frugal engineering.
3. We are masters in Jugad technology.

 

[tomluter]

Congrats to our Indian friends.The precision is not bad.

 

[jaiind]

Pakistan wants to enter into Kashmir,China wants to enter into arunachal Pradesh.but India has entered into mars orbit. Proud day for the Indians.