Thursday, September 25, 2014

Milestone for Mars exploration at the 440 million miles marker

The Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan I  or internationally known as the Mars  orbiter Mission (Mom)  after a 440 million miles journey   entered  the red planet's orbit . This  achievement puts India  in the league of the superpowers:Russia, the EU and USA whose own  Mars bound  recent satellite, Maven settled into martian orbit a day earlier . A tweet went out   " We have got you covered Mars". 
USA, India are also considering joint Mars exploration projects. India is the first country in the world to achieve this feat on its maiden satellite-to-mars project( others did not not reach martian-orbit on their first attempt)The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has already started detailed planning for India's next Mars spacecraft , MangalyaanII scheduled for 2016. Great strides by India in space exploration.