India's first interplanetary mission, an ISRO robotic orbiter known informally as Mangalyaan, launched on 5 November 2013 and inserted into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014. The mission made India the fourth space agency to reach Mars and the first to succeed on its maiden attempt, using indigenously developed propulsion and a low-cost design; it operated for roughly eight years, far exceeding its planned six-to-ten-month lifetime, before ISRO declared it non-recoverable in September 2022 after an extended eclipse drained its battery.
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Mission TypeRobotic Mars orbiter mission 1 End DateDate ISRO officially declared the spacecraft non-recoverable, after signal loss in April 2022. OutcomeSuccessful; operated for about eight years against a planned six-to-ten-month mission life, before running out of propellant and being declared non-recoverable in September 2022. 1 Mission Type
Mission Type (category) Mission Type (category)Robotic / Uncrewed Mission 1 Connections
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Wikipedia: Mars Orbiter Mission, lead section
It was India's first interplanetary mission and it made ISRO the fourth space agency to achieve Mars orbit, after Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency.
- Wikipedia: Mars Orbiter Mission, mission status section
In Group: Mars Missions of Other Space Agencies, Lead sentence
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014.
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