Mangalyaan News

After the successful soft landing of the ISRO's lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, all eyes are on the Indian space agency which has many more interplanetary missions on its to-do list. Take a look at ISRO's upcoming missions.

ISRO confirmed on Monday that the Mars Orbiter craft has lost communication with the ground station ISRO deliberated that the propellant must have been exhausted "It was declared that the spacecraft is non-recoverable, and attained its end-of-life," read their statement

India’s Mars orbiter has 'died' after 8 long years of work in the interplanetary mission Its fuel ran out and its battery drained beyond the safe limit It was launched in November 2013 and successfully entered Mars’ orbit in September 2014

"Right now, there is no fuel left (in India's Mars Orbiter craft). The satellite battery has drained," sources in ISRO told news agency PTI.

PM announced the launch of the National Hydrogen Mission to make the country a hub of production of green hydrogen. Different countries are looking towards India after it registered achievements in different fields, including space technology.

"After the performance of Chandrayaan-1, which found evidence of water on the lunar surface during its one year of operation, the Indian Space agency was working on Chandrayaan-2 along with the Russians," Dr Annadurai said. "ISRO was to make a modified orbiter and Russia was to come up with a lander. But it so happened that the Russians backed out, stating that they had to modify their lander," he added. While the Russians had stepped back with regards delivering the lander, India still had an orbiter ready, but also knew that making a lander in-house would take another 7-8 years. That was when the idea of using the existing orbiter to fulfil another mission struck the ISRO team.

The country had on September 24, 2014 successfully placed the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft in the orbit around the red planet, in its very first attempt, thus breaking into an elite club.

The spacecraft is expected to circle the planet for another five years as it has still got about 15kg of fuel left.

The Prize was presented by former Prime Minister and IGMT trustee, Dr Manmohan Singh, in the presence of Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust (IGMT), and was received by Shri AS Kiran Kumar, Chairman, ISRO on behalf of ISRO.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 29th edition of Mann Ki Baat, touched on a range of issues from India`s historic launch of a record 104 satellites on a single rocket to the Indian team`s incredible victory in the Blind T20 Cricket World Cup.​

ISRO has created history and set a world record by successfully launching 104 satellites into space on one rocket in a single go.

According to Radhakrishnan, the former president wanted to witness the launch of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) - India's first interplanetary mission – also known as Mangalyaan, on September 24, 2014 but had to leave Bengaluru with 'childlike reluctance' the day before as he had a university convocation to address.

A call for proposals through an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) has been made within India to seek proposal for scientific experiments for Mars Orbiters Mission-2.

India's maiden mission to Mars, which completed three years in orbit this week, has found place on the cover of the venerable National Geographic magazine, known for its high quality images.

ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar said the MOM had completed two years yesterday, although its original mission life was slated to be six months, and that the space agency had released a lot of first year data beamed by its five payloads.

The Indian space agency has released first year of MOM Long-term archive data (Sept 24, 2014 to Sept 23, 2015) to public.

Nearly two years after it was launched, 'Mangalyaan' is still functioning well, and with a planned course correction next January to extend its battery life, it would keep going for many years, ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said on Wednesday.

This is of direct benefit be it for India or California where we see tectonic activity.

Take a look at some of the major Indian space missions this year.

The image was taken from ISRO's Mars Colour Camera (MCC) that is on board India's Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, Mangalyaan at an altitude of 14893 km with a resolution of 774 m.