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Mangalyaan Mission Objectives Explained

The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch its first Mars orbiter mission, called Mangalyaan, in November 2013. The main objectives of the Mars mission are to demonstrate key technologies for designing, planning, and operating an interplanetary mission. The Mangalyaan probe will launch aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket from Sriharikota, India and use a Hohmann transfer orbit to reach Mars. If successful, ISRO would be the fourth space agency to put a spacecraft into Mars orbit.

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Mangalyaan Mission Objectives Explained

The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch its first Mars orbiter mission, called Mangalyaan, in November 2013. The main objectives of the Mars mission are to demonstrate key technologies for designing, planning, and operating an interplanetary mission. The Mangalyaan probe will launch aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket from Sriharikota, India and use a Hohmann transfer orbit to reach Mars. If successful, ISRO would be the fourth space agency to put a spacecraft into Mars orbit.

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OBJECTIVES @ MOM

On Independence Day last year, in his speech to the country, the Prime Minister had formally announced that
“Our spaceship will go near Mars and collect important scientific information. This spaceship to Mars will be a
huge step for us in the area of science and technology.”
The main objective of this first Indian mission to Mars is to develop the technologies required for design,
planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission, comprising the following major tasks:
 Orbit manoeuvres to transfer the probe from Earth-centered orbit to heliocentric trajectory and final capture
into Martian orbit.
 Development of force models and algorithms for orbit and attitude computations and analyses.
 Navigation in all phases.
 Maintain the probe in all phases of the mission meeting power, communications, thermal and payload
operation requirements.
 Incorporate autonomous features to handle contingency situations.
 Detection of methane on Mars using the methane sensor, for detection of life on the planet.

The Mangalyaan mission or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) 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.

Mission to Mars

The Mangalyaan Mars probe will lift off from ISRO’s launch site at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, using
a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket in November 2013, this will be India’s first mission to Mars.
On 3 August 2012, the government of India approved the project, after the Indian Space Research
Organisation completed 125 crore (US$19 million) of required studies for the Mangalyaan orbiter. The total
project cost may be up to 454 crore (US$69 million).
The space agency is planning a November 2013 launch. Launch opportunities for a fuel-saving Hohmann
transfer orbit occur about every 26 months. The next windows of opportunity are in 2016 and 2018. If
successful, ISRO would become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after Roscosmos, NASA, and ESA.
On 5 August 2013 ISRO started the assembly of the PSLV-XL designated C-25.

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