20.6.17

Mars Mission Completes 1,000 Earth Days in Orbit


India's low-cost Mars spacecraft completed 1,000 Earth days in its orbit yesterday, well beyond its designed mission life of six months or 180 days. “The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completes 1,000 earth days in its orbit, today (June 19, 2017) well beyond its designed mission life of six months,“ the Indian Space Research Organisation said. It said 1,000 earth days correspond to 973.24 Mars Sols (Martian Solar day) and the MOM completed 388 orbits. The satellite is in good health and continues to work as expected, it said, adding that scientific analysis of the data received from the spacecraft is in progress.

India had on September 24, 2014 successfully placed the spacecraft in the orbit around the Mars in its very first attempt, joining an elite club of countries with expertise in space technology . ISRO had launched the spacecraft on its nine-month-long odyssey on a home-grown PSLV rocket from Sriharikota in AP on November 5, 2013.




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