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SP Guide Publications Salutes ISRO for the Success of Mangalyaan – Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)

Regional dust storm activities over northern hemisphere of Mars – captured by Mars Colour Camera onboard the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft from an altitude of 74,500 km on September 28, 2014.

One of the first images of the surface of Mars taken by the Mangalyaan on September 25, 2014.

Launch Year Name

Country

Result

Reason

1988

Phobos 1 Orbiter

USSR

Failure

Lost en route to Mars

1988

Phobos 2 USSR Orbiter/Lander

Failure

Lost near Phobos

1992 Mars Observer US Failure

Lost prior to Mars arrival

1996

More images than all Mars Missions

Mars Global US Success Surveyor

1996 Mars 96 Russia Failure

Launch vehicle failure

1996 Mars US Success

Pathfinder

Technology experiment lasting 5 times longer than warranty

Failure

No orbit insertion

1998

Nozomi

Japan

1998

Mars Climate US Orbiter

Failure

Lost on arrival

1999

Mars Polar Lander

US

Failure

Lost on arrival

1999

Deep Space 2 US Probes (2)

Failure

Lost on arrival

2001 Mars Odyssey US Success

High resolution images of Mars

2003 Mars Express ESA Success/ Orbiter imaging

Orbiter/Beagle 2 Lander Failure Mars in detail and

lander lost on arrival

Trans Mars Injection (TMI): December 1, 2013, at 00:49 hrs (IST) Mars position, December 1, 2013 Departure from Earth, December 1, 2013

Earth orbit

Sun

Earth position, September 24, 2014

Mars orbiter trajectory 224 million km

666 million km

Midcourse Corrections 1. December 11, 2013 2. April 2014 (June 11, 2014) 3. August 2014 (Not required) 4. September 14, 2014 (September 22, 2014)

Mars orbit

Mars orbit insertion (MOI), September 24, 2014, at 07:30 hrs (IST)

2003 Mars Exploration US Success

Rover - Spirit

Operating lifetime of more than 15 times original warranty

2003 Mars Exploration US Success

Rover - Opportunity

Operating lifetime of more than 15 times original warranty

2005 Mars US Success

Reconnaissance

Orbiter

Returned more than 26 terabits of data (more than all other Mars missions combined)

2007

Phoenix Mars US Success Lander

Returned more than 25 gigabits of data

2011

Mars Science US Success Laboratory

Exploring Mars’ habitability

2011

Phobos-Grunt/ Russia/China Failure Yinghuo-1

Stranded in Earth orbit

2013

Mars US Success Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution

Studying the Martian atmosphere

2013 Mars Orbiter India Success

Mission (MOM)

Develop interplanetary techno- logies and explore Mars’ surface features, mineralogy and atmosphere.

Source: NASA

ISRO became the world’s first organisation to reach Mars in its first attempt.

Images: NASA, ISRO

ISRO’s mission cost around 11 per cent of NASA’s Maven mission.

Hearty congratulations and best wishes to ISRO team on Mangalyaan's success; nation proud of this historic achievement.

—Pranab Mukherjee, President of India

Through your achievements, you have honoured our forefathers, and inspired our future generations.

—Prime Minister Narendra Modi

India earns its admirable position in the world as one of the pioneering space exploring nations with Mangalyaan.

— Sonia Gandhi, Congress President

Congratulations to ISRO scientists who successfully launched India’s Mangalyaan into Mars orbit. They have scripted history today!

—Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister

We congratulate @ISRO for its Mars arrival! @MarsOrbiter joins the missions studying the Red Planet. #JourneyToMars — National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)

Congratulations to @ISRO @MarsOrbiter on successful orbit insertion around #Mars, welcome to the club!

—European Space Agency (ESA)