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Indian space probe orbiting Mars

29.09.2014

The first automatic interplanetary station in the history of India, designed to study Mars, reached the orbit of the Red Planet and successfully fixed itself on it. This was reported on the official website of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

The Mangalyaan probe took off on November 5, 2013 using the Indian PSLV launch vehicle from the site of the Space Center. Satish Dhawan on the island of Sriharikota, and after a month in low Earth orbit, headed for Mars. At the end of the flight and checking the condition of the equipment, the probe received a command to launch into orbit.

This process began at 07:17 am on September 24 Indian time (05:47 Moscow time). During the maneuver, the main and eight auxiliary engines worked for 24 minutes. It was possible to receive confirmation of success after another 12,5 minutes, since the probe entered orbit from the shadow side of Mars with respect to the Earth and the connection was temporarily interrupted.

The authors of the project note that the main goal of the mission is to test technologies that are planned to be used in the future for the national manned Martian program, including orbital maneuvers to transfer the device from a geocentric to a heliocentric trajectory, and then into orbit around Mars; development of modeling, calculation and analysis of orbit parameters; navigation at all stages of flight; maintaining two-way communication; working off-line operation in case of emergency situations.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi oversaw Mangalyaan's launch into orbit, later saying that "scientists from India have made history." Indeed, there is something to be proud of here, as India became the first country that single-handedly managed to successfully carry out an automatic mission to Mars on the first attempt. Previously, only countries participating in the work of the European Space Agency managed to achieve such success.

The Indian Space Agency, among other things, became the sixth in the world to send an automatic station to Mars. Before it, similar programs were implemented by the USSR, the USA, Japan, Europe and China. The total cost of the project, according to some estimates, does not exceed $85 million.

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