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| ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission |
- It is India's first interplanetary mission and ISRO has become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program,NASA, and the European Space Agency.
- It is also the first nation to reach Mars orbit on its first attempt, and the first Asian nation to do so.
- The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (Sriharikota Range SHAR), Andhra Pradesh, using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25 at 09:08 UTC (14:38 IST) on 5 November 2013.
- The launch window was approximately 20 days long and started on 28 October 2013.
- The MOM probe spent about a month in geocentric, low-Earth orbit, where it made a series of seven altitude-raising orbital manoeuvres before trans-Mars injection on 30 November 2013.
- A 298-day transit to Mars, it was successfully inserted into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014.
- The spacecraft is currently being monitored from the Spacecraft Control Centre at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) inBangalore with support from Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) antennae at Byalalu.
- The total project cost may be up to
454 crore(US$74 million).
- The satellite costs
- The space agency had planned the launch on 28 October 2013 but was postponed to 5 November 2013 following the delay in ISRO's spacecraft tracking ships to take up pre-determined positions due to poor weather in the Pacific Ocean.
- The Mars Orbiter's on-orbit mission life is six-to-ten months.
- The ISRO plans to send a follow-up mission with a greater scientific payload to Mars in the 2017–2020 timeframe.
- The total cost of the mission was approximately $70 million and is the cheapest inter-planetary mission ever to be undertaken since Martian exploration began.
- ISRO long (18-20 hour) working days for scientists.
- The orbit insertion put MOM in a highly elliptical orbit around Mars, with a period of 72 hours 51 minutes 51 seconds and aperiapsis of 421.7 km (262.0 mi) and apoapsis of 76,993.6 km (47,841.6 mi).
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