MANGALYAAN

Kishan MS
Manasa MSS

What is Mangalyaan?
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also
called Mangalyaan (mangala -Mars and
yana - vehicle), is a spacecraft
orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It
was launched on 5 November 2013 by the
Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO).
The mission is a "technology
demonstrator" project to develop the
technologies for design, planning,
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Objectives of the Mangalyaan

A. Technological Objectives: Design and realisation of a Mars
orbiter with a capability to survive and perform Earth bound
manoeuvres.
Deep space communication, navigation, mission planning and
management.
Incorporate autonomous features to handle contingency
situations.
B. Scientific Objectives: Exploration of Mars surface features,
morphology, mineralogy and Martian atmosphere by indigenous
scientific instruments.

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Mangalyaans specifications
Concern

Specification

Launch date

05 November -2013

Launch site

SDSC SHAR Centre, shriharikota, India

Launch vehicle

PSLV C-25

Lift off mass

1337 KG

Propulsion mass

852KG

Power generation

840W generation, 36AH Li-ion

Antenna

LGA, MGA, HGA

Sensor

Star censor, Solar panel sun censor and

course analogue sun censor

Bus

I-1K

Cost

Rs 450 /- Crore (73 million dollars)

Chairman

DR K Radhakrishnan

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MANGALYAANS
ORBIT

BLUE GEOCENTRIC ORBIT

GREEN HELIOCENTRIC ORBIT
RED AREOCENTRIC ORBIT
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Details of the three phases

Phase

Date

Geocentric

5 - 30
November
2013

Heliocentric

Areocentric

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Event

Detail

Result

Launch
Object
raising
manoeuvre
Trans mars
injection

Burn time 75.1631667

minutes
Apogee192,874 km

SUCCESSFUL

30 November
2013
To
22 September
2014

1st, 2nd and

3rd
trajectory
correction

Burn time-60.5
seconds

SUCCESSFUL

24 September
2014-till date

Mars orbit
insertion

Burn time1388.67
seconds

SUCCESSFUL

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Mangalyaans payloads
Payload

Primary objective

Weight

Mars Colour Camera (MCC) Optical imaging

1.27

Thermal Infrared Imaging

Spectrometer(TIS)

Map surface composition

and mineralogy

3.2

Methane Sensor for Mars

(MSM)

Detection of Methane
presence

2.94

Mars Exospheric Neutral

Composition Analyser
(MENCA)

Study of the neutral

composition of Martian
upper atmosphere

3.56

Lyman Alpha Photometer

(LAP)

Study of Escape processes

of Martian upper
atmosphere through
Deuterium/Hydrogen

1.97

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Payload locations

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Ground segment

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Mangalyaans
fourth photo
north pole of
mars

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3rd mars photo

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The atmospheric
imaging of the
red planet by the
camera and
methane sensor

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Future
ISRO plans to send a follow-up mission with a
greater scientific payload to Mars between
2018 and 2020. This mission will likely consist
of a lander and rover, rather than being
orbiter-only.

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Thank you
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