Satellite Sent To Mars By India

India s orbiter spacecraft captures its first image of mars.

Satellite sent to mars by india. Like many services performed out of india antrix s launches have competed on price and quiet reliability. It is india s first interplanetary mission and it made it the fourth space agency to reach mars. A rocket will blast off from the south eastern coast of india dropping the satellite into deep space which will then travel onto mars to achieve orbit a senior scientist said. The mars orbiter mission mom informally called mangalyaan is india s first mars orbiter.

Isro sent 32 satellites including 3 indigenous ones cartosat 2f the 6th satellite in the cartosat series to be built by isro microsat td and ins 1c on this mission. India has become the fourth nation or geo bloc to put a satellite into orbit around mars and the first from asia. The mangalyaan mission which was initially meant to last six months has completed five years of orbiting mars and is likely to continue for some more time says isro chief k sivan.

Only the us russia and europe have previously sent missions to mars. See photos from the mission s preparation here. This morning at 09 08 gmt indian space research organisation isro successfully launched the mars orbiter mission also known as mangalyaan the country s first spacecraft destined for mars. India s first mission to the red planet called the mars orbiter mission is slated to launch from satish dhawan space center on oct.

In the last five years the mars orbiter mission mom india s first interplanetary endeavour helped india s space agency prepare a martian atlas based on the images provided by the orbiter sivan. The mars orbiter mission mom also called mangalyaan mars craft from sanskrit.