The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), informally called Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: मंगलयान, English: Mars-craft) by the media, is a planned Mars orbiter to be launched in November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission is a "technology demonstrator" project aiming to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission.
The Mars Orbiter Mission probe is set to lift-off from First Launch Pad at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket PSLV C-25 at 2:38 PM on November 5, 2013. The launch window available is for about 20 days starting 28 October. This will be India's first mission to Mars. The official countdown for blast-off of the Indian orbiter, nicknamed "Mangalyaan", began at 06:08 am on November 3, 2013
Mangalyaan's on-orbit mission life is between six and ten months. The spacecraft structure and propulsion hardware configurations are similar to Chandrayaan 1, India's first successful robotic lunar probe that operated from 2008 to 2009, with specific improvements and upgrades needed for a Mars specific mission. Further details about the spacecraft are scant, but it is expected that its solar panel surface area will be increased by a factor of 3 to ensure adequate electrical power can be generated from the lower solar flux available in Mars orbit
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