May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... not only within the country but overseas too, including China. After India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), it was this flight which aroused more curiosity and public interest compared to some of the other Indian...
June 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...later. India also launched the robotic Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM, nicknamed Mangalyaan) toward the Red Planet in November 2013...time. Whereas MAVEN will study Mars' upper atmosphere, MOM carries different instruments, include a sensor to detect methane...
18 May 2020
India opens its space industry to private firms and start-ups
India is opening up its space agency facilities to allow private firms and startups to build satellites and rockets announced Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday. “Indian private sector will be a co-traveller in India’s space journey”, ...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
...included me and my sisters in the activities they enjoyed. Mom sewed our clothes, macramed plant hangers, made pottery and hooked... love strapping into a rocket ready for launch. Nicole’s mom and sisters before the launch of Discovery, STS128 Best kind...
01 December 2014
India reaches Mars at first attempt
Launched from the Satish Dhawan space centre in India in November 2013, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), or Mangalyaan probe, successfully went into orbit around the red planet on 24 September 2014. This mission by the ...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...it into the league of world space powers. In total, MOM had covered a distance of 680 million km. International accolades The... three deep-space networks had been earmarked specially to monitor MOM’s Mars orbit insertion on 24 September. “Such is the...
