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The orbiter reached Mars orbit on September 24, 2014. Through this mission, ISRO became the first space agency to succeed in its first attempt at a Mars orbiter. The mission is the first successful Asian interplanetary mission. [6] Ten days after ISRO's launch, NASA launched their seventh Mars orbiter MAVEN to study the Martian atmosphere.
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment to explore the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and potentially also the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune - to fly near them while collecting data for ...
This is a list of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) missions. ISRO has carried out 125 spacecraft missions, 92 launch missions [1] and planned several missions including [2] the Gaganyaan (crewed/robotic) and Interplanetary mission such as Lunar Polar Exploration Mission, Chandrayaan-4, Shukrayaan and Mangalyaan-2 (Mars Lander Mission).
Launch Date Launch Vehicle Orbital Insertion Date Landing Date Return Date Status Main Mission Extended Mission Expected Mission Duration Final Mission Duration Notes Phase 1: Orbiters Mars Orbiter Mission: 5 November 2013 PSLV-XL: 24 September 2014 – – Success Success 6 months 7 years, 6 months, 8 days First Indian interplanetary mission.
In 22 July 2019, ISRO launched Chandrayaan-2 on board a Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) launch vehicle consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover. [20] The lander was scheduled to touch down on the lunar surface on 6 September 2019 to deploy the Pragyan rover. The lander lost contact with mission control, deviated from its intended trajectory ...
Launch Date Operator Mission Type [1] Outcome [2] Remarks Carrier rocket [3] 1 1M No.1: 1M No.1: 10 October 1960: OKB-1 Soviet Union: Flyby Launch failure Failed to achieve Earth orbit Molniya: 2 1M No.2: 1M No.2: 14 October 1960: OKB-1 Soviet Union: Flyby Launch failure Failed to achieve Earth orbit Molniya: 3 2MV-4 No.1: 2MV-4 No.1: 24 ...
The Voyager probes were launched in 1977 and have explored Jupiter and Saturn and surveyed Uranus and Neptune before leaving the solar system. But the two spacecraft wouldn’t have been able to ...
Voyager 2: 20 August 1977 [2] Titan IIIE Centaur-D1T [8] NASA: Flyby Successful Closest approach at 01:21 UTC on 26 August 1981. Flew past Iapetus, Titan, Dione, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys and Rhea at long distances. Later flew past Uranus and Neptune. [9] 3 Voyager 1: Voyager 1: 5 September 1977 [2] Titan IIIE Centaur-D1T [8] NASA: Flyby Successful