MANGALYAN: INDIAN MISSION TO MARS
It was 24TH SEPT. 2014, in ISRO when eyes were on the computer screens ,waiting for the time which was going to earn a lot of respect and fame for the Indian space research organisation .our honourable PM Modi was sitting with great patience in the ISRO cabin waiting to hear that the Mangalyaan mission was a success.
It all started in 2011 when the Chinese mission to mars got failed due to some reason , which made INDIA to think to achieve more in the space industry. India started to plan an interplanetary mission to mars . This started in the silicon valley of India Bengaluru . Where the ISRO centre started to work on the Indias mission to mars . The chief of ISRO AS Kiran kumar told that it would take about 300 days to reach mars covering a distance more than 65000cr kms. It was a great opportunity for India , thus the mangalyaan was designed at ISRO and then PSLV was oriented in the SATISH DHAWAN SPACE CENTRE , SHRI HARIKOTA and it will be launched too from here. The main work of the scientists behind this was to take photos on mars for which special cameras were developed in Ahemdabad.
After the scientific instruments were loaded on the mangalyaan then it was taken to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Shri Harikota in the October end of 2013.
It was needed to track the movement of the craft until it lands on the mars, for which we had stations in BERNEI, INDONESIA,PORTBLAIR but there were non in the pacific ocean . For which ISRO used 2 ships having antennae to track the movement . But 1 of the two ships got out of the track due to bad weather before the launch . This created a problem in the calculations made by the scientists as it would lead to failure of the mars mission . But ISRO scientists were very skilled to deal with such problems and then the date was skipped to 5thNovember 2013. The ships were at their fixed position and then the launch countdown was started . Then the craft left the earths atmosphere and thus India got success in launching mangalyaan . The mangalyaan has to go out of the earths field ,the mangalyaan was made to increase its velocity for that. But once a time came when there was shortage if fuel in the mangalyaan craft. The fuel was less and the mangalyaan had to travel a long distance . But the ISRO scientists took risk and switched on the engine and it was a success. Then it started to travel in the free space for long time of more than 250 days . Then the final day which was 24th September 2014 the mangalyaan reached the mars orbit .
It had to land on mars but it had to travel from the back of the mars where there was no light . The mangalyaan used a energy of 800watt from generated from the solar panels which were devoid of light now. But ISRO had already fitted it with a Li battery to come over such situations . Thus mangalyaan successfully landed on the mars . It was a day of great happiness and joy for India . the chief of ISRO AS Kiran kumar was succesfull in executing the mission with the team with the motto – PREPARE FOR THE WORST AND HOPE FOR THE WORST.
IT WAS PROVED THAT INDIA HAS POWER TO LEAD IN SPACE RESEARCH .
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