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India to Mars

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• Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) informally called as Mangalyaan
• Launch Date :- 5 November 2013 2.36 PM IST
• Weight of Satellite :- 1,340 Kg


• Program Director :- M.Annadurai
• Project Director :- S.Arunan
• ISRO Chairman :- K.Radhakrishnan
• PSLV-XL spacecraft launch Mission Director :- S.K.Shivkumar
• Director of ISRO Satellite Center :- S.K.Shiva Kumar
• Government of India Approved the MOM on 3rd August 2012
• Launch Rocket :- Polar Satellite Launching Vehicle C25 (PSLV-C25)
• Launch Site :- Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota,Andhra Pradesh
• Total Cost of Mars Mission :- Rs 450 Crore


• Hight of PSLV C25 :- 45 Meter
• Diameter of PSLV C25 :- 2.5 (stage 1)
• Mission Duration :- 300 Days

Objective of Mission

• To determine how Martian weather system work.
• To determine what happend to the large quantities of water that are belived to have once existed on Mars.


• To search Mars for methane, a key chemical in life processes that could also come from geological processes.
• To improve understanding about how plants form, wht condition make life possible and where else in the universe it might exist.