posted 11-04-2013 09:38 AM               

This thread is for comments and questions regarding India's first mission to Mars and the updates published under the topic: ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission.

Mars Orbiter Mission is India's first interplanetary mission to planet Mars with an orbiter craft designed to orbit Mars in an elliptical orbit. The mission is primarily technological mission considering the critical mission operations and stringent requirements on propulsion and other bus systems of spacecraft.

posted 11-04-2013 09:41 AM               

The 44.4 m long PSLV-C25, with Indian flag painted on the Nose, stands erect looking at the blue sky at the ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikotta, some 100 kms from Chennai. The Vehicle, with payload, has went through over eight hours of test on Thursday and ISRO said it was successful.

This time, the Mission of PSLV and 5th in the XL configuration, will carry the Mars Orbiter Satellite (1337 kg) into a 250 km X 23500 km elliptical orbit. The Satellite will be further navigated to a hyperbolic departure technology and thereafter it traverses an interplanetary cruise trajectory before reaching the intended orbit around the Mars, according to ISRO.

The vehicle is expected to reach its destination sometime in September 2014.

posted 09-23-2014 07:26 AM               

A timeline of milestones that have led up to the MOI can found on ISRO's website.

posted 10-02-2022 12:41 PM               

"Right now, there is no fuel left. The satellite battery has drained," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told PTI. "The link has been lost."

There was, however, no official word from the country's national space agency, headquartered here.

With fuel on board, ISRO had been performing orbital manoeuvres on MOM spacecraft to take it to a new orbit to avoid an impending eclipse in the past.

"But recently there were back-to-back eclipses, including one that lasted seven-and-half hours," officials said on condition of anonymity, noting that all the propellant on board the ageing satellite had been consumed.

"As the satellite battery is designed to handle eclipse duration of only about one hour and 40 minutes, a longer eclipse would drain the battery beyond the safe limit," another official said.

ISRO officials noted that the Mars orbiter craft functioned for almost eight years, well beyond its designed mission life of six months.

"It has done its job and yielded significant scientific results," they said.