"Mangalyan" flies to India safely sent to Mars spacecraft "Mangalyan." - Expedition Andrei Polyakov

Category: Science Created 13.11.2013 02:35 Date Sergey Ivanov Views: 415

India boldly sent a spacecraft to Mars “Mangalyan».

However, a quarter of the way he has failed in the engines. Orbit correction was unsuccessful, and the probe did not come out to a predetermined height. Instead of the planned 100,000 km probe reached the apogee only 78,300 km.

Due to limited resources, the Indians used a rather

elaborate scheme to launch the device in the course. The machine rotates around the earth for a long time, gradually increasing the apogee of the orbit to 215 thousand kilometers. A major breakthrough probe must commit 30 November 2013.

Indian probe “Mangalyan” intended to explore Mars, launched November 5, 2013 from the spaceport at Sriharikota island in the Bay of Bengal. It is equipped with a sensor for determining the composition of Martian atmosphere, the thermal infrared spectrometer, a video camera to film surface of the planet and its satellites – Deimos and Phobos.

probe to reach Mars orbit in September 2014, the first year.

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