Indias Mars mission satellite mated with rocket, launch date revised... The Indian Space Research Organization completed integration of its Mars mission satellite, with the rocket while the heat shield is expected to be closed in couple of days. Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan told that the Rs 450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) will be delayed by a week as out of of the two ships — Nalanda and Yamuna — carrying rocket tracking systems, only the latter has reached Fiji. The Nalanda is expected to reach there October 21. From there, both the ships have to travel to their respective locations to track the rocket. The ships have terminals to track the rocket, which has a coasting period of around 20 minutes beyond the visibility of existing ground stations. The Malgalyaan mission was originally slated for October 28 from Isros rocket launch centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80km from here. The launch window is between October 28 to November 19, the revised launch date will be decided October 22 after the ship reaches Fiji.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:22:55 +0000
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