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ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

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Re: ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

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Post by swatkat »

MOM spacecraft was launched last year (5th Nov 2013) and today it entered into Martian orbit. Here's the twitter handle of spacecraft: https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter

Mars Orbit Insertion was covered live on ISRO webcast (http://webcast.isro.gov.in/), Doordarshan National TV and other channels. Here's the complete coverage of MOI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZL_Vwy0JqI

MOI sequence of events: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mom/status.html

MOM carries five scientific payloads: http://www.isro.org/mars/payload.aspx

Expecting first set of colour pictures from MOM by today evening (IST) :)

Re: ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

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Post by realrocker »

pingpong_table wrote: post #13
realrocker wrote: post #10

Not only did Mom reach Mars, she also got a pretty good bargain on it. So Indian :)

My Mom is an engineer working at ISRO designing satellite components and this line totally fits! She's vacationing so I just called and gave her the good news. :-D

Congratulations! You guys must be extra happy.

Re: ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

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Post by adityab »

swatkat wrote: post #21

MOM spacecraft was launched last year (5th Nov 2013) and today it entered into Martian orbit. Here's the twitter handle of spacecraft: https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter Mars Orbit Insertion was covered live on ISRO webcast ( http://webcast.isro.gov.in/ ), Doordarshan National TV and other channels. Here's the complete coverage of MOI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZL_Vwy0JqI MOI sequence of events: http://spacefligh…

And it's already getting friendly with the Curiosity Rover. ;-)

https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter/status/514618412417302528

Re: ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

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Post by [deleted] »

enupten wrote: post #17
suprgeek wrote: post #4

What is even more commendable is that it was done pretty cheaply [1]. Granted the capabilities of some of the other craft are different - but not THAT different. Add to this the fact that this was a success in the first shot - getting a craft from the Earth to to Mars Orbit correctly in one shot on a meager budget is indeed a stunning success for ISRO. [1] https://twitter.com/WSJIndia/status/514591179363864578/photo.…

What's even more fascinating is that ISRO survived at all, through the cold war. The fact that India has a fledgling space program, despite its problems, strikes me as rather inspiring. The fact that it was done cheaply stems partly from the fact that there is a factor of ~5-10 between the purchasing-power and corresponding USD value (which is why engineers in India seem to be paid lower in dollar terms).

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Re: ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

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Post by th3iedkid »

[deleted] wrote: post #28
enupten wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's even more fascinating is that ISRO survived at all, through the cold war. The fact that India has a fledgling space program, despite its problems, strikes me as rather inspiring. The fact that it was done cheaply stems partly from the fact that there is a factor of ~5-10 between the purchasing-power and corresponding USD value (which is why engineers in India seem to be paid lower in dollar terms).

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one more surprise : despite the amount of rampant corruption at top-levels in places like ISRO , its still working out excellent!
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