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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched its first analog space mission in Leh to simulate life in an interplanetary habitat. The mission, which will last for a month, is a collaborative effort by Human Spaceflight Centre, ISRO, AAKA Space Studio, University of Ladakh, IIT Bombay, and supported by the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council. The primary objectives of the …

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India's Mars Orbiter Mangalyaan has floated into oblivion, eight years after it was put into Martian orbit. Sample some of these tweets to know more: Mangalyaan runs out of battery ISRO said at a national meet to commemorate the Mars Orbiter Mission on Monday that late last month it was deliberated that the propellant must have been exhausted, and therefore, …

Mars Orbiter craft non-recoverable; Mangalyaan mission over, confirms ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation confirmed on Monday that the Mars Orbiter craft has lost communication with ground station, it's non-recoverable and the Mangalyaan mission has attained end-of-life. The ISRO gave an update on the Mars Orbiter Mission and the national meet held on September 27 to commemorate the MOM, on the event of completion of its eight years in …

ISRO's Mars orbiter was made for mission life of six months, completed seven years in orbit this month

The lessons learnt have raised the confidence of ISRO scientists for taking up future interplanetary missions. India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. The main lessons learnt were in the field of design and realisation of systems and subsystems, launch for interplanetary mission, insertion into other planet’s …