Bangalore: In its maiden attempt, India on Wednesday successfully placed Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter mission or in the orbit of Mars. The Space Research Organization of India has made history and has entered the league of the other three bodies was successfully launched mission to Mars.
As all operations were on time, India is the first Asian country to reach Mars in your first attempt. ISRO said: "All engines are heavy fuel burning going on.." All motors began to burn as the exact timeline.
Prime Minister Modi and Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah were at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bangalore to witness the decisive Mars Orbiter insertion.
Mangalyaan is primarily a technological mission and configured to carry out the observation of the physical characteristics of Mars and perform limited studies of the Martian atmosphere.
ISRO Chairman Dr. K Radhakrishnan is personally leading the team of 14 space scientists featured in this mission and worked on it for 15 months. More than 200 space scientists were in the control room monitoring even the smallest details of final phase of the Mars Mission.
ISRO keep the spacecraft Mars to Earth view to better control. ISRO is making a very complex maneuver and the other three countries - USA, the European Space Agency and Russia have failed in their first attempt.
Mars spacecraft send images back to the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore. ISRO hopes to get the first pictures of this afternoon. Mars spacecraft can be as close as just 80 kms from the planet.
Mission Mars has been completely flawless since its launch on November 5, 2013 Monday was tested successfully fired its main engine liquid that was in standby mode for 10 months. The engine was fired precisely test for four seconds.
The Mars Spececraft fell into the orbit of Mars. In the final act, the orbiter slowed to 22.1 kilometers per second to 4.4 kilometers per second relative to the red planet to be captured by the Mars orbit.
ISRO has also uploaded commands to help the spacecraft automatically enters the orbit.
ISRO also has an advantage because it learned from previous missions of the United States, ESA and Russia. There have been 11 attempts so far by all the world's space agencies. The success rate is 40 percent.
Rs 450 crore mission is one of the cheapest and as Modi said costs less Hollywood sci-fi film 'Gravity'.
The Mars Orbiter Mission, the first interplanetary mission in India, was launched by the workhorse of the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh.
