ISRO a few hours away from historic Mars Mission
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), informally called Mangalyaan , is a planned Mars orbiter to be launched in November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission is a "technology demonstrator" project aiming to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission.
The Mars Orbiter Mission probe is set to lift-off from First Launch Pad at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket PSLV C-25 at 2:38 PM on November 5, 2013. The launch window available is for about 20 days starting 28 October. This will be India's first mission to Mars. The official countdown for blast-off of the Indian orbiter, nicknamed "Mangalyaan", began at 06:08 am on November 3, 2013.
PSLV C-25 will put Mangalyaan weighing 1,340 kilograms in the earth orbit. To reach Mars, the spacecraft has to enter three phases, the earth centered phase, the helio centric phase and finally the Martian phase.
According to reports, Mangalyaan, the first inter-planatory mission to the red planet is primarily a technological machine.
It has been configured to carry out observations of the physical features of the Mars and also to carry out a limited study of the Martian atmosphere.
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