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India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan-I, India’s first interplanetary mission to the Red Planet, was launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on November 5, 2013. The mission’s primary objective is to test key techniques for interplanetary exploration and use its five science instruments to study the topography, atmosphere, morphology, and mineralogy of Mars from its orbit. Through that mission, ISRO not only became the fourth agency in the world to establish a mission in Mars orbit but also made India the first Asian country to reach Mars orbit.

Here through this article, we will take a comprehensive view of the “Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan-I” considering its relevance to the UPSC IAS Exam (GS Paper III, Space & IT).

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About Mars Orbiter Mission

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or “Mangalyaan Mission-I” made India proud as the country to reach Mars orbit in its first attempt. The Mangalyaan Mission has brought many honors and goals for India during its journey, due to which the Indian Space Research Organization has got recognition and a strong position among global agencies including Russian Roscosmos and American Space NASA.

Brief about Mars Orbiter Mission
Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan 1 is Manufactured by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Mars Orbiter Mission launch vehicle Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL C25).
Mangalyaan 1 spacecraft mass 1,075 pounds (488 kilograms).
Mangalyaan 1 Instruments Lyman Alpha Photometer(LAP), Thermal Imaging Spectrometer(TIS), Mars Color Camera(MCC), Methane Sensor for Mars(MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer(MENCA).
Mangalyaan 1 control or tracking center Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC), located at Byalalu (The ground station of ISRO in Bangalore, Karnataka ).
Mars Orbiter Mission 1 alternate names Mangalyaan-I, Mars Craft, 39370, 2013-060A.
Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan 1 budget ₹450 crores (US $74 million).

The objective of Mars Orbiter Mission / Mangalyaan Mission 1

Primary Objective

  • To test and develop the key technology & planning required for India’s interplanetary mission.

Secondary Objective

Using its five science instruments to studying of-

  • To explore the topography (Surface studies) of Mars using; the Mars Color Camera(MCC),
  • To study the constituents of the Martian Atmosphere using; Lyman Alpha Photometer(LAP),
  • Plasma and Particle environmental studies using; Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer(MENCA),
  • To explore the mineralogy of Mars using Thermal Imaging Spectrometer(TIS),
  • To study or image Mars’s Moons (Phobos and Deimos) using Mars Color Camera(MCC),
  • To provide information about the future possibility of life and the past existence of life using; the Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer(MENCA).

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Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) / Mangalyaan: Launch Date

Overview of Mars Orbiter Mission- Launch Date
Mars Orbiter or Mangalyaan 1 launch date or time November 5, 2013, | 09:08 UT.
Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan 1 launch location Took off from the ISRO’s space center Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota (Tirupati district in Andhra Pradesh).
Mars Orbiter Mission 1 insertion date or time September 23, 2014, | 1:47:32 UT.
Mars Orbiter Mission distance from the Earth 14.4 million km
Lifespan of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan 1 Initially the designed mission life was six months but It is still functioning.

Mars Orbiter Mission: Scientists And Engineers

Especially because of its cost-effectiveness, Mangalyaan is seen as a successful mission, which is currently also sending its services to the Earth. The credit behind this goes to the community of all the scientists of ISRO who worked on this project with a lot of hard work and dedication. However, the names of some space scientists who led the entire mission of Mangalyaan are written in the table below-

Names of Some Space Scientists
Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan 1 led by the then ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan
Associate Project Director of Flight Dynamics BS Kiran
Mars Orbiter Mission Director V Kesava Raju
ISRO scientific secretary V Koteswara Rao
Director of the Liquid Propulsion System Chandradathan

Tracking of Mangalyaan Mission (Mars Orbiter Mission)

The Mangalyaan mission is tracked by ground-based instruments in India and various countries which are listed below-

  1. Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC), located at Byalalu (The ground station of ISRO in Bangalore, Karnataka ).
  2. NASA’s DSN (Deep Space Network); Is an international network of facilities, managed and operated by JPL’s Interplanetary Network Directorate.
  3. SANSA; South African National Space Agency at Hartebeesthoek.
  4. National Institute of Space Research (INSTE), Under the Brazilian Space Agency– Alcantara and Cuiaba TTE stations.
  5. Biak (In the Pacific Ocean), Brunei (In the South China Sea), Indonesia, and Mauritius (Both located in the Indian Ocean) Islands based on tracking stations.

Source: ISRO

Is Mangalyaan still working in 2022?

In 2021, Mangalyaan-I or India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft completed seven Earth years in Mars orbit. According to ISRO officials, the mission was designed for only six months, but it is still working smoothly. Although some of the instruments of Mangalyaan are not working properly at present, despite this the orbiter is continuously sending images of the Red Planet to the Earth.

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Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM): Achievements

The achievements of India’s indigenously built “Mangalyaan Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan-I” are as follows-

  • India, through its “Mangalyaan Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan-I”, not only became the first Asian country to achieve the feat of reaching Mars orbit but also became the first country to do so in its first attempt.
  • India’s “Mangalyaan Mission-I” has been accepted by the International Space Community as the cheapest mission ever to Mars.
  • India’s “Mangalyaan-I” had registered its name as the first Indian spacecraft to survive successfully crossing the Van Allen Belt 39 times.

  • India’s “Mangalyaan-I” registered its name as the first Indian spacecraft to escape the Earth’s sphere of influence and orbit the Sun.

    • India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan-I Mission won some famous awards which are listed below.

    • In 2015- the “Mangalyaan-I Mission” entire project team (ISRO’s scientists) won the Space Pioneer Award from the US-based National Space Society.
    • India’s Mangalyaan-I mission also earned praise from the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, who considered the mission the ‘Pride of Asia’.

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM): Challenges

The Mangalyaan spacecraft configuration is a balanced mix of designs from the flight-proven IRS/INSAT/Chandrayaan-1 bus. The configuration and subsequent design of the Mangalyaan spacecraft have also faced many challenges during its mission life.

The Mangalyaan-1 spacecraft is designed for interplanetary missions capable of operating in Earth burn, Mars transfer trajectory, and Martian orbit environments. However, the major design challenges are as follows-

  • Varying the thermal environment of Mars,
  • Radiation environment,
  • Solar Array,
  • Power backup systems or Battery life,
  • Communication systems (the antenna system),
  • Propulsion systems and on-board autonomy.

The Importance Of Exploring Mars For India

The significance of the discoveries of astronomical, climatic, and life present on Mars through Mangalyaan-1 for India are as follows-

  • Mangalyaan-I; It is India’s only indigenously built artificial Mars satellite. It successfully sent images of the entire disk of Mars in one visible frame and images of the far side of Deimos, the outer and smaller parts of Mars’ two moons (Phobos and Deimos), to the Earth.
  • Helped India’s space scientists prepare a complete atlas of Mars based on images provided by the Mars mission’s orbiter.
  • India’s Mars Orbiter sent thousands of images of Mars (the Red Planet) back to Earth, raising the curiosity and fascination of space scientists about Mars.
  • This Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) helped to study the evidence of life and water on Mars. That is why today we humans have started looking toward Mars as an alternative home for humans.
  • In the end, an important conclusion of the mission was the discovery that dust storms on Mars can extend for hundreds of kilometers.

Most Successful Mission to Mars

India through its Mangalyaan mission not only became the first Asian country to achieve the feat of reaching Mars orbit but also became the first country to do so in its first attempt. Apart from this, India has also been praised for making the Mangalyaan mission the cheapest and most successful sustainable mission ever to Mars.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) achieved the feat in preparing Mangalyaan-I in a budget of only ₹450 crore (US $74 million). Surprisingly, that is only 1/7th of the expenditure made by NASA on Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN).

Status of Mars Orbiter Mission

India’s ambitious “Mangalyaan-I Mission”, on 24 September 2021, MOM completed 7 years in orbit around the Red Planet and sent 2.3 terabytes of imaging data to the Earth, although it still has enough propellant to complete another year in orbit.

2010 The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan-I unmanned mission was first publicly recognized by the then ISRO chairman, G. Madhavan Nair.
2012 The project was officially approved by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
October 28, 2013, The launch date was first finalized, however, it was postponed to November 5, 2013, due to unsuitable weather conditions.
November 5, 2013, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launch date.
On November 5, 2021, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completed 8 years of launch.
Mars Orbiter Mission Status In Progress.

Mars Orbiter Mission / Mangalyaan 2- Status

According to a report by news agency PTI, the Indian Space Research Organization- ISRO’s Chairman Dr. K. Sivan said that Mangalyaan-2 will be done only after the launch of India’s upcoming moon mission Chandrayaan-3. Along with this, it was also told by him that ‘the architecture for the mission is yet to be finalized, although it is not yet known when this mission named Mangalyaan-2 will be ready.

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Conclusion

Within the Office of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), special importance is attached to the exploration of the planet Mars because Mars is the most like Earth of the planets in our solar system and the place where the first detection of extraterrestrial life seems most likely to be made. A Successful mission in 2013 its first attempt; the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan-I and caused the space agency’s program of Mars exploration to be systematically rethought, both technologically and scientifically for India.

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Mars Orbiter Mission FAQs

NASA's Mariner 4 was the world's first spacecraft to reach Mars. The Mariner 4 spacecraft, launched on November 28, 1964, and made its first flight to Mars on July 14, 1965.

In 2021, India's Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft completed seven Earth years around the orbit of Mars. Initially lasting for only six months as planned by ISRO, it is still operational today.

The mission primarily aims to test key technologies for interplanetary exploration and to use its five science instruments to study Mars's topography, atmosphere, morphology, and mineralogy from its orbit.

India through its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) not only became the first Asian country to achieve the feat of reaching Mars orbit, but also India became the first country in the globe to do so in its first attempt.

5 November 2013, Took off from ISRO’s space center Satish Dhawan Center at Sriharikota (Tirupati district in Andhra Pradesh).

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan Mission (In Sanskrit "yāna", "craft, vehicle").
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