Mangalyaan

Mangalyaan
StatusAvslutad
TypKretsare
OrganisationISRO
Större entreprenörU R Rao Satellite Centre
Andra namnMars Orbiter Mission
NSSDC-ID2013-060A[1]
Uppdragets varaktighet7 år, 6 månare, 8 dagar
Sista kontaktapril 2022
Uppskjutning
UppskjutningsplatsSatish Dhawan Space Centre
Uppskjutning5 november 2013,
09:08 UTC
UppskjutningsfarkostPSLV-XL
Omloppsbana runt Mars
Gick in i bana24 september 2014,
02:10 UTC
Banlutning150,0°
Apoapsis76 993,6 km
Periapsis421,7 km
Egenskaper
BussI-1 K
Massa1 337 kg
Dimensioner1,5 meter
Effekt840 watt

Mangalyaan eller Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) är en indisk rymdsond som sköts upp mot Mars med hjälp av en PSLV-XL-raket den 5 november 2013. Den 24 september 2014 gick sonden in i omloppsbana runt Mars.[2]

Rymdsonden studerade planetens yta och atmosfär.

I april 2022 förlorade man kontakten med rymdsonden. Rymdsonden var byggd för att ha en livslängd på 6 månader när den väl gått in i omloppsbana runt Mars.[3]

Rymdsonden var Indiens första försök att skicka en rymdsond till en annan planet.

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Mars Orbiter Mission - India - ArtistsConcept.jpg
Författare/Upphovsman: Nesnad, Licens: CC BY-SA 4.0
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), informally called Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: मङ्गलयान, English: Mars-craft) is a Mars orbiter that was successfully launched on 5th November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This is a less than perfect artist's concept of the orbiter in orbit. I'm aware that the image is not 100% accurate, but I did attempt to emulate what the craft looks like. I thought a free-use image would be valuable to Wikipedia projects. If there is interest, I might come back and fine-tune this image to be more correct.
Mars Hubble.jpg
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took the picture of Mars on June 26, 2001, when Mars was approximately 68 million kilometers (43 million miles) from Earth — the closest Mars has ever been to Earth since 1988. Hubble can see details as small as 16 kilometers (10 miles) across. The colors have been carefully balanced to give a realistic view of Mars' hues as they might appear through a telescope. Especially striking is the large amount of seasonal dust storm activity seen in this image. One large storm system is churning high above the northern polar cap (top of image), and a smaller dust storm cloud can be seen nearby. Another large dust storm is spilling out of the giant Hellas impact basin in the Southern Hemisphere (lower right).