MADRID, Sept. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Indian spacecraft MOI (Mars Orbit Insertion), known as ‘Mangalyaan’ has entered the orbit of Mars, as reported by the Space Research Organization of India (ISRO). Thus, India became the first country to enter Mars orbit on the first attempt and the first Asian country to reach the red planet.
This milestone makes India the fourth power space to reach Mars, after the United States, the Soviet Union and the European Space Agency, according to the CNN detailed.
The main objective of this mission is to demonstrate the technological capabilities of India and also to study the planet’s atmosphere and surface. To do this, the probe is equipped with five instruments, including an imager includes several colors or a tracker of methane gas.
‘Mangalyaan’, designed and built in 15 months by the space agency India (ISRO) was launched in November 2013 from the base of Sriharikota, aboard a rocket PSLV C-25.
This Indian mission to Mars has been praised by the country’s government for its scientific merit and “low cost”. Thus, China’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has completed the mission budget is 73 million dollars.
According to the figures provided by the Indian government, which actors simulate Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were drifting in outer space in the movie ‘Gravity’ cost more money than the Indian space mission to Mars –rodar film cost about $ 100 million -.
” I’ve heard of the movie ‘Gravity’.’m told that the cost of our space mission to Mars is less than the money spent producing the Hollywood movie, “Modi said.
” All credit goes to our scientists, even today our program is known for being more profitable. Our scientists have shown the world a new engineering paradigm and the power of imagination, “he said in comments reported by the newspaper The Times of India ‘.
Narendra Modi, elected May 24 as Prime Minister of India, made the remarks from Sriharikota, a platform for space launch in southern India.
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