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Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter is dead and THIS is why we are sad to see it go
7Oct By adminNo Comments
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Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter is dead and THIS is why we are sad to see it go

[ad_1] Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter is dead and this is why the Indian scientific community mourns it. Mangalyaan's Mars Orbiter quietly died and the Indian scientific community is mourning it. On October 3, ISRO reached out to the world announcing the unseen demise of the orbiter staying in Mars orbit for eight years. "The spacecraft is non-recoverable and attained its end-of-life," ISRO said, adding that "the mission will be ever-regarded as a remarkable technological and scientific feat in the history of planetary exploration."The orbiter, popularly known as MOM, was inserted in the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, and it has continued to be India's frontier in exploration of the Red Planet. The spacecraft was originally designed to function for six months and then turn itself off. ...
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India loses contact with budget Mars orbiter after eight years
4Oct By adminNo Comments
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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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With drained battery, no fuel, India’s Mars Orbiter craft dies quietly in space
3Oct By adminNo Comments
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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
3Oct By adminNo Comments
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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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NASA InSight lander detects asteroids as they slam into Mars
20Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA InSight lander detects asteroids as they slam into Mars

[ad_1] Mars, by virtue of its tenuous atmosphere and proximity to our solar system's asteroid belt, is far more vulnerable than Earth Mars, by virtue of its tenuous atmosphere and proximity to our solar system's asteroid belt, is far more vulnerable than Earth to being struck by space rocks - one of the many differences between the two planetary neighbors. Scientists are now gaining a fuller understanding of this Martian trait, with help from NASA's robotic InSight lander. Researchers on Monday described how InSight detected seismic and acoustic waves from the impact of four meteorites and then calculated the location of the craters they left - the first such measurements anywhere other than Earth. The researchers used o...
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