India's first interplanetary mission and it made ISRO the
fourth space agency to achieve Mars orbit,
after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It made
India the first Asian nation to reach the Martian orbit and the first
nation in the world to do so on its maiden attempt.
The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch
Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (Sriharikota Range
SHAR), Andhra Pradesh, using a Polar Satellite Launch
Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25 at 09:08 UTC on 5 November
2013. The launch window was approximately 20 days long and
started on 28 October 2013. The MOM probe spent about a month
in Earth orbit, where it made a series of seven apogee-
raising orbital manoeuvres before trans-Mars injection on 30
November 2013 (UTC). After a 298-day transit to Mars, it was put
into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014.
The mission was a "technology demonstrator" project to develop
the technologies for designing, planning, management, and
operations of an interplanetary mission. It carried five scientific
instruments.[27] The spacecraft was monitored from the Spacecraft
Control Centre at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command
Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru with support from the indian deep
space network (IDSN) antennae at Bengaluru, Karnataka.
On 2 October 2022, it was reported that the orbiter had
irrecoverably lost communications with Earth after entering a
seven-hour eclipse period in April 2022 that it was not designed to
survive. The following day, ISRO released a statement that all
attempts to revive MOM had failed and officially declared it dead,
citing the loss of fuel and battery power to the probe's
instruments
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parts
Mangalyaan carries a 15-Kilogram payload suite that
consists of five scientific instruments:
Lyman Alpha Photometer – LAP.
Martian Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer – MENCA.
Mars Color Camera – MCC.
Methane Sensor for Mars – MSM.
Thermal Infrared Imaging System – TIS.
