Indias low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red - TopicsExpress



          

Indias low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red planets orbit on Wednesday become the only country to complete the trip on its maiden attempt. Indias space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed - by sending an operational mission to Mars. The Mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be in orbit shortly after 0800, Indian time. It is, without doubt, a considerable achievement. This is a mission that has been budgeted at 4.5bn rupees ($74m), which, by Western standards, is staggeringly cheap. The American Maven orbiter that arrived at the Red Planet on Monday is costing almost 10 times as much. Back in June, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi even quipped that Indias real-life Martian adventure was costing less than the make-believe Hollywood film Gravity. Even Bollywood sci-fi movies like Ra.One cost a good chunk of what it has taken to get Mangalyaan to Mars.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:14:12 +0000

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