Mars Orbiter Mission : Latest News

[Indo-guy]

India's Mars mission delayed by a week - The Times of India

CHENNAI: India's Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled for launch on October 28, has been delayed and the fresh date will be announced later, said the space agency chief.

"Of the two ships Nalanda and Yamuna, only Yamanua has reached Fiji. Nalanda has not reached there. It is expected to reach Fiji only around October 21. So the Mars mission will not happen Oct 28. As the launch window is between Oct 28-Nov 19, we will decide on the revised date after the ship reaches Fiji," Indian Space Research Organisation ( Isro) chairman K Radhakrishnan told IANS.

He said the delay will be by a week and by October 22, the launch date is expected to be known.

The ship has terminals to track the rocket, which has a coasting period of around 20 minutes beyond the visibility of existing ground stations.

Radhakrishnan said the rocket has been assembled and the satellite integration is on now.

"In two days it will be over and then there will be checks on the rocket and satellite systems," he said.

 

[Echo_419]

Agar Mission Galti SE Bhi Fail Hogya toh bohot Besti Hogi
ISRO walo naak maat Kat dena PDF pe

 

[faithfulguy]

Its better to be late than never. And why don't everyone put any news on this mission in one thread, instead of opening up a new thread for every new article.

 

[airomerix]

^True but not a problem. There should be no room for discouragement. FORWARD always!

 

[skysthelimit]

India's Mars mission delayed by a week - The Times of India

CHENNAI: India's Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled for launch on October 28, has been delayed and the fresh date will be announced later, said the space agency chief.

"Of the two ships Nalanda and Yamuna, only Yamanua has reached Fiji. Nalanda has not reached there. It is expected to reach Fiji only around October 21. So the Mars mission will not happen Oct 28. As the launch window is between Oct 28-Nov 19, we will decide on the revised date after the ship reaches Fiji," Indian Space Research Organisation ( Isro) chairman K Radhakrishnan told IANS.

He said the delay will be by a week and by October 22, the launch date is expected to be known.

The ship has terminals to track the rocket, which has a coasting period of around 20 minutes beyond the visibility of existing ground stations.

Radhakrishnan said the rocket has been assembled and the satellite integration is on now.

"In two days it will be over and then there will be checks on the rocket and satellite systems," he said.

How can a ship be delayed? It's not as if it can get caught in traffic!

 

[Star Wars]

Agar Mission Galti SE Bhi Fail Hogya toh bohot Besti Hogi
ISRO walo naak maat Kat dena PDF pe

Abe...Isro kya PDF dekh khar mission decide karta hai kya ? ...chutyapanti kahi aur dikha

 

[Indo-guy]

India's Mars mission satellite mated with rocket, launch date revised - The Times of India



CHENNAI: The Indian Space Research Organization completed integration of its Mars mission satellite on Sunday with the rocket while the heat shield is expected to be closed in couple of days, an official said.

"The 1,340 kg satellite was mated with the rocket today (Sunday). The heat shield will be closed in two or three days after tests. Everything is progressing normally on the rocket and the satellite side," an Isro official, who did not want to be identified, told IANS.

On Saturday Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan told IANS that the Rs 450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) will be delayed by a week as out of of the two ships — Nalanda and Yamuna — carrying rocket tracking systems, only the latter has reached Fiji.

The Nalanda is expected to reach there October 21. From there, both the ships have to travel to their respective locations to track the rocket, Isro officials told IANS.

The ships have terminals to track the rocket, which has a coasting period of around 20 minutes beyond the visibility of existing ground stations.

The Malgalyaan mission was originally slated for October 28 from Isro's rocket launch centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80km from here.

According to Isro officials, there is no problem as far as the mission is concerned.

Radhakrishnan said as the launch window is between October 28 to November 19, the revised launch date will be decided October 22 after the ship reaches Fiji.

Incidentally October 22 is seems to be a special date for Isro. It is a Tuesday and in Tamil, Mars planet is called Sevvai Graham and Tuesday is also called Sevvai. In Hindi, Mars is called Mangal and Tuesday is Mangalwar.

India's first inter-planetary mission was to the Moon October 22, 2008 at an outlay of around Rs 390 crore.

 

[Echo_419]

Abe...Isro kya PDF dekh khar mission decide karta hai kya ? ...chutyapanti kahi aur dikha

Chutiyapaa mein uahi dikhaunga Irritate ho raja hai
To kahi aur Chala ja

Galiya hamne Bhi sekhi hai bhaijaan

Regarding my comment
I was just talking about certain sideeffects agar Khuda na kasta Mission fail hojaye
Kripya dang SE Baath Kare warna maat Kare

 

[Star Wars]

Chutiyapaa mein uahi dikhaunga Irritate ho raja hai
To kahi aur Chala ja

Galiya hamne Bhi sekhi hai bhaijaan

Regarding my comment
I was just talking about certain sideeffects agar Khuda na kasta Mission fail hojaye
Kripya dang SE Baath Kare warna maat Kare

If you are going to talk utter nonsense then you should expect similar replies ... ISRO doesn't give a **** about your side effects

 

[iam not greek]

Agar Mission Galti SE Bhi Fail Hogya toh bohot Besti Hogi
ISRO walo naak maat Kat dena PDF pe

world doesn't revolve around PDF. Grow up!!

 

[Indo-guy]

India to launch Mars Orbiter Mission on November 5 - The Times of India

CHENNAI: India will launch its first interplanetary probe, Mars orbiter spacecraft, at 3.28pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Isro said on Tuesday.

The launch, which was scheduled on October 28, got postponed because of a delay in one of the ships carrying radars for monitoring the rocket in reaching the south Pacific Ocean.

The Rs 450-crore Mars Orbiter Mission involves a complex set of operations including injection of the spacecraft into an earth orbit, and later, through multiple manoeuvres, hooking it to the Mars orbit, which is more than 400 million km from earth.

The months of October-November present a window of opportunity for the launch as the distance between the planets would be the shortest.

The orbiter would make a 300-day journey through space to reach the Mars orbit.

Indian ships, Nalanda and Yamuna, will be in the South Pacific Ocean, carrying powerful radars to monitor the rocket, since it would be cruising at altitudes not reachable by the ground stations for close to 20 minutes.

Once in outer space, the spacecraft will be monitored by Isro's space tracking facility at Baylalu in Karnataka.

Isro will also take help from Nasa's deep space network in tracking the orbiter.

The orbiter, as it goes around the red planet, will employ a Mars colour camera on board to take pictures of Mars.

An imaging spectrometer will map and study the surface composition and minerals. Other equipment will study the Martian atmosphere.

The mission will also try to photograph Phobos and Deimos, the two satellites of Mars.