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The Mars Orbiter Mission was India's spacecraft that orbited Mars from 2013 to 2022, making India one of the few nations to successfully reach the planet. The mission demonstrated India's capability in space exploration and contributed to scientific observations of Mars during its nearly decade-long operation.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- orbiter
- Country of origin
- India
- Followed by
- Mars Orbiter Mission 2
- Parent body
- Mars
- Mass
- 482.5
- Manufacturer
- U. R. Rao Satellite Centre
- Official website
- www.isro.gov.in/MarsOrbiterMissionSpacecraft.html
- Image
- Mars Orbiter Mission - India - ArtistsConcept.jpg
- Height
- 1.5
- Width
- 1.5
- Length
- 1.5
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- launch contractor
- Indian Space Research Organisation
- Commons category
- Mars Orbiter Mission
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2013-11-05
- payload mass
- 13.4
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2022-04-00
- powered by
- lithium-ion battery
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Encyclopedic overview
Insignia depicting journey from Earth to an elliptical Martian orbit using Mars symbol Indian Mars exploration missions
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was India's first interplanetary mission and it made ISRO the fourth space agency to achieve Mars orbit, after Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit. It also made ISRO the first national space agency in the world to do so with an indigenously developed propulsion system and the second national space agency to succeed on its maiden attempt, after the European Space Agency accomplished this in 2003 using a Roscosmos Soyuz/Fregat rocket.
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