NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Manglayaan-1

Launch Time
Tue Nov 05, 2013 09:08 UTC

India's first Mars mission.

Rocket

PSLV-XL
ISRO
Status: Active
Price: $31.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,661 kN
Payload to LEO: 3,250 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,410 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 6
Rocket Height: 44.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.2 m
Fairing Height: 8.3 m

Mission Details

Manglayaan-1

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan ("Mars-craft", from Mangala, "Mars" and yāna, "craft, vehicle"), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It is India's first interplanetary mission and it made it 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 Martian orbit and the first nation in the world to do so on its maiden attempt.

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 is a "technology demonstrator" project to develop the technologies for designing, planning, managing, and the operations of an interplanetary mission. It carries five scientific instruments. The spacecraft is currently being 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.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,337.0 kg
Elliptical

Location

First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2013

62nd orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

40th mission
3rd mission of 2013
28th successful mission
8th consecutive successful mission

PSLV

25th mission
3rd mission of 2013
23rd successful mission
21st consecutive successful mission