From the red fort to the red planet

India's Mars Mission

Uninterrupted global attention on Mars has induced India's great interest on the Mars Mission.India has planned an ambitious,short-term programme of Mars exploration -'Mangalyaan-1'-to be launched by the Indian Space research organisation (ISRO).Mangalyaan meaning Mars-craft is an orbiter. it was not land on the surface of Mars.be encircle the planet.the maiden mission to Mars is a "technology demonstrator" project aiming at a successful interplanetary mission. ISRO is completed 125 crore (US$23 million) of required studies for the orbiter last year.thereafter,the government of India approved the mars mission project on 3 august 2012.the total project cost may be about 454 crore (US$ 83 million).


MAJOR GOALS OF MARS MISSION

(a) To transfer the probe from earth-centered orbit to heliocentric trajectory
(b) To insert the probe finally into Martian orbit
(c) To develop force models and algorithms for orbit and attitude computations and analyses
(d) To navigate the probe from earth to Mars in deep space using the deep space network
(e) To meet power,communications and payload operation requirements of the probe
(f)  To re-activate the temporary inactive sub-systems of the probe after a 10-month journey
(g) To study Martian atmosphere and explore things not done previously by other countries
(h) To know how and why the red planet lost water and carbon dioxide
(i)  To incorporate autonomous features to handle unforeseen situations
(j)  Above all,to successfully enter orbit of Mars regardless of any scientific data return.