Congratulations to India on a Great Achievement! BREAKING: Mangalyaan successfully enters Mars orbit. India’s Mangalyaan Enters Mars Orbit India put a satellite into Mars orbit early Wednesday, the only nation to have done so on a maiden voyage and the first in Asia to reach the red planet. As the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on, space scientists at mission control in Bangalore, India’s tech capital, announced that the Mangalyaan orbiter had entered Mars orbit after a 10-month voyage from Earth. Mangalyaan, Hindi for Mars craft, cost $74 million to send into space, making it by far the cheapest of recent missions to Mars. The U.S. spent $671 million getting its Maven satellite to Mars orbit, where it arrived late Sunday. Mr. Modi boasted in June that India had spent less than Hollywood had on producing the film “Gravity” to reach the red planet. On Wednesday, he said was at mission control watching as confirmation came in that Mangalyaan had entered Mars orbit. India now joins a small club of nations — the U.S., Russia and those in the European Space Agency – to have mastered interplanetary travel, giving it bragging rights over Asian rivals China and Japan whose attempts to get to Mars failed. “Domestically this will boost the morale of the people that India has gained tremendous economic and technical development and is on the way pretty fast to becoming a developed country,” said Ram Jakhu, a professor at the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University in Canada. “Externally, India will have its head held high to say that it is capable of such a complex task.” blogs.wsj/indiarealtime/2014/09/24/indias-mangalyaan-enters-mars-orbit/
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:38:38 +0000
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