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The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially termed Mangalyaan, (from Sanskrit: Mangala, "Mars" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") turned into an area probe orbiting Mars given that 24 September 2014. It turned into released on five November 2013 through the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It turned into India`s first interplanetary task and it made ISRO the fourth area business enterprise to obtain Mars orbit, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency.[19] It made India the primary Asian kingdom to attain the Martian orbit and the primary kingdom withinside the globe to accomplish that on its maiden attempt. The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted off from the First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (Sriharikota Range SHAR), Andhra Pradesh, the use of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25 at 09:08 UTC on five November 2013. The release window turned about 20 days lengthy and commenced on 28 October 2013. The MOM probe spent approximately a month in Earth orbit, in which it made a chain of 7 apogee-elevating orbital manoeuvres earlier than the trans-Mars injection on 30 November 2013 (UTC). After a 298-day transit to Mars, it turned into positioned in Mars orbit on 24 September 2014. The task turned into a "generation demonstrator" challenge to broaden the technology for designing, planning, management, and operations of an interplanetary task. It carried 5 clinical instruments. The spacecraft turned into monitored by the Spacecraft Control Centre at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru with aid from the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) antennae at Bengaluru, Karnataka.

On October 2, 2022, it was reported that the orbiter was not designed to survive the irreversible loss of communication with Earth after entering a 7-hour solar eclipse in April 2022. The next day, ISRO issued a statement that all attempts to revive MOM had failed, and officially declared MOM dead, citing the rover's loss of propellant and battery power.

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