Tomorrow India is set to make history. Its maiden Mars mission Mangalyaan will enter the Mars orbit. The people behind the $74 million Mars Mission in the country's top space agency NASA have said that the spaceship will enter the orbit automatically.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is set to launch his US tour that came after ten years of waiting is flying to Bangalore to witness the history in the making. He was there when immediately after his becoming chief minister he flagged off the French weather satellite that was sent by India's ISRO. It is needless to say that ISRO scientists and their top managers are very happy with the launch of the Mars Mission and are looking forward to enter the Mars orbit.
After testing the engine for four seconds, the NASA bosses are sure that the spaceship is going to pass through it without any hitch. They are sure that the engine will work without any issue tomorrow when it will be fired for 24 minutes along with all eight thrusters.
Despite the confidence that ISRO scientists are displaying, odds stacked against them are very high. Reports suggest that only 21 of the 51 missions to Mars have succeeded thus war. Asian nations have been luckless in this regard thus far. China's Mars mission Yinghuo-1 failed came a cropper in 2011. And the same happened to the Russian Phobos-Grunt mission with. So ISRO scientists are rather in two moods at the moment.
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - Rating: 4.5
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