Category Archives: India’s Mars Mission

India Gets to Mars on the First Try – MOM’s the Word(link)

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Dear Readers A fellow blogger has written a very good post on India’s Mars Mission and commented on my previous post. Here I am giving a brief introduction of the post and a link to the post.Please read in the … Continue reading →

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India has a date with Mars. Little Belated Independence Day Gift :-)

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

India created history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt. Indian Space Research Organisation’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47am,  12 minutes later … Continue reading →

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How the Mars mission helps India

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

India’s launch of a small unmanned satellite to Mars is  a giant leap for its space programme. Science writer Pallava Bagla writes on what the mission means for India and the world. Read here on  BBC News

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India’s Mars orbiter mission : Coundown Begins for Search of Methane

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

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