India's First Interplanetary Mission i.e Mars orbiter Mission

[bsriharsha]

where are the UK and it's journalists hiding now ? keep talking out of their **** about eradicating poverty before sending rockets. dude , good that the indian government told them that we don't need their aid. Its time the UK get off their high horse and realise that they are a puppet state of US.

[randomGuy]

You must either be retarded or a Paki to come up with such a stupid idea..

nballa is being sarcastic.

[dial_100]

Simply :hatsoff:

[yoda]

ISRO seems to be one org. which is a cut above the rest. This is some accomplishment so far!

[nballa]

so lets say indians send astronauts to the moon and the lift off from the moon fails, lets discuss all possible scenarios right from rescue mission to watching slow death on TV

[CSK Fan]

nballa is being sarcastic.

Well, you joined in June, you wouldn't know

[Prakat]

MoM is now further away from the earth than any other spacecraft launched by India. @nballa Also, yesterday my friend's daughter threw a ball that went further than anything launched by Pakistan.

[nballa]

@nballa Also' date=' yesterday my friend's daughter threw a ball that went further than anything launched by Pakistan.[/quote'] can she play in the indian cricket team?

[Prakat]

can she play in the indian cricket team?

We let one long-haired bowler play in our team and we don't intend to repeat that mistake.

[CSK Fan]

If we find some potential fast bowling martians, we should place a bid for them before England does

[KeyboardWarrior]

Congrats to all Indians .... :two_thumbs_up:

[Mornantau]

Cheers to that

[beetle]

ISRO successfully performs first trajectory correction manoeuvre on Mars Orbiter The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre of India's maiden interplanetary mission to Mars was on Wednesday carried out successfully by Isro scientists on the spacecraft, which is presently travelling some 2.9 million km away from Earth. "The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) of Spacecraft was carried out successfully at 06:30 hrs (IST) by firing the 22 Newton Thrusters for a duration of 40.5 seconds. The spacecraft is travelling at a distance of about 29 lakh (2.9 million) km away from Earth," ISRO said in a statement. The TCMs fine tune the trajectory of the spacecraft to keep it travelling in the intended track towards the red planet. Today's correction was carried out by the computer on board the spacecraft, since the amount of time required for the signal to go and return was about 20 seconds, as MOM was already travelling about some 2.9 million km away, ISRO said. "MOM team is gaining hands-on experience in handling the communication delay as it keeps increasing gradually," it said. The spacecraft had moved out of the Earth’s orbit on December 1. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has planned four TCMs during its journey to Mars. The manoeuvres are needed to keep the spacecraft on the required path. It is also essential for maintaining the required velocity. "The eight thrusters on board will be fired precisely to steer the MOM to Mars during the Trajectory Manoevure Correction (TMC). Our navigation team has now got a precise understanding of the precise trajectory of MOM based on the range and velocity data acquired over the several days since the Trans-Mars Injection (TMI). Now is the time to eliminate the minor deviations in the trajectory," Isro said. Mangalyaan is on its 680-million-km voyage to Mars. If it makes it, India will join a select club comprising the US, Russia and Europe. Once in the Mars orbit, the orbiter’s five payloads will then start performing experiments for the next six months. http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mangalyaan-s-first-mid-course-correction-successful/article1-1161387.aspx :om:sab mangalmaye ho....

[Ram]

This maybe a noobie question, but we all know that space is full of all kinds of free-floating matter – dust, small-to-medium sized meteors etc. How do these interplanetary voyages manage to avoid all of them during their flight?

[ganeshran]

This maybe a noobie question' date=' but we all know that space is full of all kinds of free-floating matter – dust, small-to-medium sized meteors etc. How do these interplanetary voyages manage to avoid all of them during their flight?[/quote'] Chances of meteors hitting the probe are close to zero, space is really HUGE and most of it is empty. I think dust particles do hit the orbiter now and then but don't think they do a lot of damage

[Ram]

Chances of meteors hitting the probe are close to zero, space is really HUGE and most of it is empty. I think dust particles do hit the orbiter now and then but don't think they do a lot of damage

There is a difference b/w zero and ‘close to zero’, is it not? Besides, at the velocities that we are talking about, a quarter sized space debri could easily puncture a hole thru the solar panels that power the craft.

[vvvslaxman]

There is a difference b/w zero and ‘close to zero’, is it not? Besides, at the velocities that we are talking about, a quarter sized space debri could easily puncture a hole thru the solar panels that power the craft.

Post your questions here https://www.facebook.com/isromom They respond to all technical questions

[nikred]

This maybe a noobie question' date=' but we all know that space is full of all kinds of free-floating matter – dust, small-to-medium sized meteors etc. How do these interplanetary voyages manage to avoid all of them during their flight?[/quote'] I was going to type the exact same question. Was even going to include "This maybe a noobie question". Then I read your post. :cantstop:

[punjabi_khota]

There is a difference b/w zero and ‘close to zero’, is it not? Besides, at the velocities that we are talking about, a quarter sized space debri could easily puncture a hole thru the solar panels that power the craft.

At several million KM away from Earth (where Mars is ), close to zero is really really close to zero. And nothing is done to avoid dust etc. Meteors which are being tracked are kept into account while planning the mission, nothing can be done to avoid ones which we don't know about. Most of the space debris of concern is within few thousand KM of earth, where all the remnants of old satellites, and the new satellites live. Some satellites have been lost recently due to this issue, and there is a massive effort in research community to address this. For example, Japanese are thinking of "fishing" out some of this debris using a concept similar to fishing net.

[gattaca]

^^ or like china firing rockets to destroy.