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Mangalyaan Gets Ready To Enter Mars Orbit

Posted by timothy on from the space-is-a-big-place dept.

William Robinson (875390) writes India's Mars Orbiter Mission, known as Mangalyaan is now at a distance of just nine million kilometres from the red planet, and is scheduled to enter the orbit of Mars at 7.30 am on September 24. Mangalyaan was launched on 5th November 2013 by ISRO, presently busy planning to reduce the speed of the spacecraft through the process of firing the LAM engine and bring it to 1.6 km/sec, before it is captured by the planet's gravity. Eventually, the mission's official updates page should catch up.

4 of 67 comments (clear)

  1. Congratulations, India ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    India appears to be the ONE country that has the "ooomph" in terms of the CAN DO spirit

    Not only their space launch costs much less than the one from NASA, it costs less than the one from ESA (Europe), from Japan, from Russia and from China !

    We should learn from India on how to keep cost down

    Again, congratulations are in order for India !!

    1. Re: Congratulations, India ! by kyjellyfish · · Score: 3, Funny

      All right!!! Let's add space exploration to the list of things we can outsource to India.

  2. Not news by Jiro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because 9 million miles is no more newsworthy than 8 million or 10.

    I'm reminded of the old joke:

    "What famous event happened in 1732?"

    "George Washington was born."

    "Very good. Now what famous event happened in 1743?'

    "George Washington became 11 years old."

  3. Congratulations, India! by GenaTrius · · Score: 3

    I need to give Indian culture some serious study at some point, both ancient and contemporary. What little I've learned so far has been fascinating. I wouldn't be at all surprised if India surpassed the US in international prominance in a few decades.