Satellite Sent By India To Mars

A rocket will blast off from the south eastern coast of india dropping the satellite into deep space which will then travel onto mars to achieve orbit a senior scientist said.

Satellite sent by india to mars.

On november 5 2013 a rocket launched toward mars. Save this story for later. 40332 35 762 5 km 22 221 8 mi 35 824 7 km 22 260 4 mi. Isro has 58 mission planned during the 2012 2017 time span involving 33.

India s space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed by sending an operational mission to mars. Mission control in the southern indian city of bangalore. Gsat 16 is the twenty fourth communication satellite of india configured to carry a total of 48 transponders 12 k u 24 c and 12 c ue each with a bandwidth of 36 mhz which was the highest number of transponders in a single satellite at that time. The current mars mission was developed and launched in a mere 15 months making today s launch all the more impressive.

India s chandrayaan 2 mission is just the beginning of ambitious plans to launch the first gaganauts into earth orbit followed by missions to launch balloons at venus and land on mars. It is india s first interplanetary mission and it made it the fourth space agency to reach mars. It was launched on 5 november 2013 by the indian space research organisation isro. Why india went to mars.

It was india s first interplanetary mission mangalyaan and a terrific gamble. Guards stand by one of india s polar satellite launch vehicles. India has become the first nation to send a satellite into orbit around mars on its first attempt and the first asian nation to do so. Only 40 percent of missions sent to mars by major space.

The mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be in orbit shortly after. The mars orbiter mission mom also called mangalyaan mars craft from sanskrit. By samanth subramania n.