The Indian Space Research Organization on Monday confirmed that the Mars Orbiter has lost contact with the ground station, cannot be recovered and the life of the Mangalyaan mission has come to an end.
ISRO gave an update on the Mars Orbiter Mission and the national meeting held on September 27 to celebrate MOM on the occasion of its eight years in the Martian orbit.
It was also discussed that despite being designed to have a life-span of six months as a technology demonstrator, the MOM could last about eight years in Martian orbit with significant scientific results on Mars as well as on the solar corona. Used to be. As a result of a prolonged eclipse in April 2022, before losing communication with the ground station, the National Space Agency said.
ISRO said that during the national meeting, ISRO considered that the propellant would have been exhausted, and therefore, the “desired altitude point” for sustained power generation could not be achieved.
“It was declared that the spacecraft is non-recoverable, and has reached the end of its life,” an ISRO statement said. “The mission will be regarded as a remarkable technological and scientific achievement in the history of planetary exploration”.
MOM was launched on November 5, 2013, and after completing a 300-day interplanetary journey, it was inserted into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014.
“During these eight years, armed with five scientific payloads, the mission has gifted significant scientific understanding on the Martian surface features, morphology, as well as the Martian atmosphere and exosphere,” ISRO said.