India’s first interplanetary spacecraft
NOV 05, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031086
On this date two years ago, India launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, the country’s first interplanetary spacecraft. MOM, also known as Mangalyaan (Image credit: Wikipedia user Neshad), reached Mars in September 2014 and has been taking pictures of the planet and studying the planet’s atmosphere ever since. With the success of the mission, India became just the fourth space program to reach Mars, and the first country to do so on the first attempt.
Date in History: 5 November 2013
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