NAME: JITIN J PILLAI

ENROLLMENT NUMBER:

140430117019

THE RED PLANET……

“In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.”

-- CARL SAGAN

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. The condition in Mars are believed to be hospitable since the planet is similar to Earth in many ways. Some of the major similarities are shown here.

ABOUT MOM……

Mission type Mars orbiter

Operator ISRO

COSPAR ID 2013-060A

SATCAT No. 39370

Mission duration 6 months (planned)

Bus I-1K

Launch date 5 November 2013, 09:08 UTC

Rocket PSLV-XL C25

Launch site Satish Dhawan FLP

Reference system Areocentric

Periapsis 421.7 km (262.0 mi)

Apoapsis 76,993.6 km (47,841.6 mi)

Inclination 150.0°

Period 72 hours 51 minutes 51 seconds

Orbital insertion 24 September 2014, 02:00 UTC

MANGALYAAN……The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan ("Mars-craft" from Sanskrit मंगल mangala, "Mars" and यान yāna, "craft, vehicle"), is a spacecraft orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The mission is a "technology demonstrator" project to develop the technologies for design, planning, management, and operations of an interplanetary mission. It carries five instruments that will help advance knowledge about Mars to achieve its secondary, scientific, objective.

MISSION PLAN……Mission planning is done in conjunction with the defined mission objectives. The Mars Mission can be envisaged as a rendezvous problem. The rendezvous mission consists of following three phases:

1. Geo Centric Phase2. Helio Centric Phase3. Martian Phase

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