Mangalyaan to Mars - Vayu Aerospace

India's first interplanetary mission,. ISRO's Mars Orbiter named as. Mangalyaan successfully lifted off towards Mars from the Satish Dhawan. Space Cen...

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Mangalyaan to Mars India’s Mars Orbiter launched by PSLV C-25

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ndia’s first interplanetary mission, ISRO’s Mars Orbiter named as Mangalyaan successfully lifted off towards Mars from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 5 November 2013 “to carry out experiments and search for evidence of life on the red planet.” “It is a historic moment for all of us. We have successfully put the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft into an elliptical orbit

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as had been intended,” K Radhakrishnan, Chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), exulted from the control room. “I feel delighted to announce that the spacecraft is in a good health,” he continued. SK Shivakumar, Director, ISRO Satellite Centre, summed up the Indian scientific community’s pride at the flight of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) . “Our baby is up in space looking for scientific objects. We have a long way to go,” he said amidst loud applause. Only the US, Europe, and Russia have sent probes that have orbited or landed on Mars. Probes to Mars have a high failure rate and success will be a boost for national pride, especially after a similar mission by China failed to leave Earth’s orbit in 2011. China has keenly followed Mangalyaan’s successful launch, which will also aid

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