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    MARS ORBITER MISSION (Mangalyan )

    Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India's first interplanetary mission to planet Mars was launchedonboard
    PSLV-C25 on November 05, 2013. ISRO has become the fourth space agency to successfully send a
    spacecraft to Mars orbit.Though the designed mission life is 6 months, MOM completed 7 years in its
    orbit on Sept 24, 2021.

    Mission Objectives

    The objectives of this mission are primarily technological and include


    design, realisation and launch of a Mars Orbiter spacecraft capable of
    operating with sufficient autonomy during the journey phase; Mars
    orbit insertion / capture and in-orbit phase around Mars. MOM carries
    five scientific payloads to study the Martian surface features,
    morphology, mineralogy and Martian atmosphere.

    Scientific payloads

    1. Mars Color Camera (MCC)


    2. Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS)
    3. Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM)
    4. Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA)
    5. Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP)

    Uniqueness
     Highly elliptical orbit geometry of MOM enables its Camera (MCC)
    to take snap shots of Full disc of Mars at its farthest point and
    finer details from closest point.
     First time observation of the far side of Deimos, one of the moons
    of Mars.

    Major science results

     The solar coronal dynamics during the post-maxima phase of the


    solar cycle 24 using S -band radio signals from the MOM (MNRAS,
    2022)
     Enhanced escape of Martian atmosphere during global dust
    storm (JGR-Planets, 2020)
     MENCA detected 'hot' (suprathermal – more energetic compared
    to thermal) Argon in the exosphere of Mars (GRL, 2017). Mars
    was at perihelion during this observation.
     Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser(MENCA)
    observations have shown for the first time that the abundance of
    Oxygen exceeds that of Carbon-Dioxide at an altitude of ~270
    ±10 km, during the perihelion evening hours (GRL, 2016).
     Atmospheric optical depth (AOD) was estimated through Mars
    Colour Camera (MCC) observations and the studies reported the
    presence of lee-wave clouds above the southern wall of Valles
    Marineris (Icarus, 2015)

    PSLV-C37 World record


    India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its thirty ninth flight (PSLV-
    C37), launches the 714 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth
    observation and 103 co-passenger satellites together weighing about
    663 kg at lift-off into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).
    PSLV-C37 was launched from the First Launch Pad (FLP) of Satish
    Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. This was the
    sixteenth flight of PSLV in 'XL' configuration (with the use of solid
    strap-on motors).

    The co-passenger satellites comprised of 101 nano satellites, one


    each from Kazakhstan, Israel, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United
    Arab Emirates (UAE) and 96 from United States of America (USA), as
    well as two Nano satellites from India. The total weight of all these
    satellites carried on-board PSLV-C37 was about 1377 kg.

    PSLV-C37 also carried two ISRO Nano satellites (INS-1A and INS-1B),
    as co-passenger satellites. These two satellites carry a total of four
    different payloads from Space Applications Centre (SAC) and
    Laboratory for Electro Optics Systems (LEOS) of ISRO for conducting
    various experiments.

    The 101 International customer Nano satellites were launched as part


    of the commercial arrangements between Antrix Corporation Limited
    (Antrix), a Government of India company under Department of Space
    (DOS), the commercial arm of ISRO and the International customers.

    Bibliography:
    Topic 1: https://www.isro.gov.in/MarsOrbiterMissionSpacecraft.html

    Topic 2: https://www.isro.gov.in/C37Cartosat.html

    https://www.clearias.com/isro-world-record-pslv-c37-launch/

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