MISSION POSSIBLE
Project Cost::-Rs 450 Cr
Mangalyaan,India maiden mission to Mars,will be launched into space at 2.30 pm yesterday.with this,India will attempt to become the first Asian country and the fourth to reach Mars after the Soviet Union,US and Europe.
WEIGHT:-1,350-Kg.
300-DAY JOB:-The 1,350-kg orbiter will take 44 mins to reach earth orbit&300 days to cover the 780 million-km journey to mars.Expected to reach its designated orbit on Sept 24,2014
AIMS:-It has five Indigenously -designed instruments to conduct experiments once it reaches Mars atmosphere.One is a search for Methane, a key chemical In life processes on Earth.
THE CATCH:-None of the instruments will send back enough data to answer questions definitively but experts say the data are key to better understanding what conditions might make life possible.
CHALLENGES:-No country has been fully successful on its first mission to Mars.23 out of 40 misssions have failed,Including by japan in 1999 and China in 2011.
ELITE CLUB:-If India pulls this off ,it will demonstrate a highly capable space program & boost its credentials to join future collaborative intermational deep-space missions.
INDIA TO LAUNCH MARS MISSION TODAY
India will take Its next major step forward in the space programme after the successful launch of chandrayaan-1 in 2008,when scientists of Indian space Research Organisation launch the maiden mission to Mars at 2.38pm from the satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,(A.P).PSLV-C25 will carry the 1,337 kg Mars Orbiter Satelite into a 250kmX23,500km elliptical orbit.
LAUNCH VEHICLE
The space-craft will be launched by a 350-tonne rocket,an extended version of Isro workhorse, the polor Satelite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25).
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