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India loses contact with budget Mars orbiter after eight years
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India loses contact with budget Mars orbiter after eight years

[ad_1] India has lost contact with its Mars orbiter, its space agency said. India has lost contact with its Mars orbiter, eight years after the low-cost probe made it the first Asian nation with a spacecraft circling the red planet, its space agency said.Although "designed for a life-span of six months as a technology demonstrator, the Mars Orbiter Mission has lived for about eight years in the Martian orbit with a gamut of significant scientific results", the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said Monday. The agency said in a statement that, after an eclipse in April cut off sunlight to the probe, its "propellant must have been exhausted" and that it "attained its end-of-life". Launched in 2013 before entering Mars's orbit the following year, the probe made India one of only ...
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Mangalyaan mission is dead! ISRO Mars Orbiter breaks Indian hearts; it was truly SPECIAL
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Mangalyaan mission is dead! ISRO Mars Orbiter breaks Indian hearts; it was truly SPECIAL

[ad_1] ISRO has confirmed that the Mars Orbiter is now non-recoverable and the Mangalyaan mission is dead. But what made this tech marvel so special? On October 3, the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) broke the hearts of 1.2 billion Indians when it revealed that the Mars Orbiter has lost communication with the ground station and with its current non-recoverable state, the Mangalyaan mission has been brought to an end. The orbiter was in its eighth year (7 years, 6 months, 8 days), which had extended its original mission timeline by seven years. Yet, the death of Mangalyaan has saddened many who were looking forward to celebrating the eighth anniversary of the mission. So, why was the Mangalyaan mission so loved i...
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With drained battery, no fuel, India’s Mars Orbiter craft dies quietly in space
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With drained battery, no fuel, India’s Mars Orbiter craft dies quietly in space

[ad_1] Country's maiden interplanetary mission 'Mangalyaan' may have finally completed its long innings. India's Mars Orbiter craft has run out of propellant and its battery drained beyond the safe limit, fuelling speculation that the country's maiden interplanetary mission 'Mangalyaan' may have finally completed its long innings. The ₹450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched onboard PSLV-C25 on November five, 2013, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully inserted into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 in its first attempt. "Right now, there is no fuel left. The satellite battery has drained," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told PTI. "The link has been lost". There was, however, no official wor...
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In big blow, ISRO’s Mangalyaan runs out of fuel over Mars; 450 cr orbiter lost
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In big blow, ISRO’s Mangalyaan runs out of fuel over Mars; 450 cr orbiter lost

[ad_1] In a big blow, ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mangalyaan has run out of fuel and the satellite battery has drained. Check details here. India's Mars Orbiter Mangalyaan has run out of fuel and its battery has drained beyond the safe limit. "Right now, there is no fuel left. The satellite battery has drained," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told PTI. "The link has been lost", he added. However, there was no official statement from the country's national space agency. With fuel on board, ISRO had been performing orbital manoeuvres on MOM spacecraft to take it to a new orbit to avoid an impending eclipse in the past. "But recently there were back-to-back eclipses including one that lasted seven-and-half hou...
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