Sujit Chakraborty NEWS BENCH: Top Indian scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are now mulling the possibility of extending India’s regional reach via a SAARC Satellite. This comes in the wake of India’s remarkable success in sending its Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, into the orbit of the Red Planet, at the first […]
NEWS BENCH: Mangalyaan, or what is technically known as MOM, Mars Orbiter Mission, achieved what no other country in the world has done… enter the Mars orbit at first attempt. This is a big challenged posed by Indian to China, whose first Martian adventure ended in the spaceship collapsing into the ocean in 2011. The […]
Bangalore: India’s spacecraft Monday entered the Martian sphere of influence on way to the red planet’s orbit early Wednesday, while cruising in the sun’s orbit. “Our navigators’ calculation shows that our Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has entered the gravitational sphere of influence of Mars around 9 a.m.,” a senior Indian space agency official told. The […]