To reach the Red Planet, India’s first attempt
Indian satellite called Mangalyaan launched successfully on Mars. Thus India was the first country in the world that has managed to get to Mars from the first attempt, according to Reuters.
Budget Indian mission to Mars, which cost just $ 74 million, led the country’s space program with a 50-year-old history to a new level. Now India has become a par with the European Union, Russia and the United States, which succeeded, though not on the first try, but send your spacecraft to the Red Planet.
«Today we are making history. We dare to invade the unknown, reached nearly impossible, “- said to his fellow citizens, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mangalyaan probe was launched into space in November 5, 2013. The device carries a device for estimating the concentration of methane in the Martian atmosphere, color camera, a quadrupole mass analyzer, a spectrometer and a photometer. Progressed to more than 350 million kilometers, Mangalyaan has now reached its final destination.
Indian spacecraft all the way followed his “big brother” – the American probe Maven. This is the tenth of the Martian satellites NASA, construction and start-up at a cost of 671 million dollars. Maven has reached the Red Planet on September 22.
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