Mangalyaan said goodbye, after 8 years of journey, fuel and battery ran out
India’s Mangalyaan has run out of propellant and its battery after lasting longer than a safe limit, fueling speculation that the country’s first interplanetary mission has finally completed its long innings. The ‘Mars Orbiter Mission’ (MOM) costing four and a half hundred crores was launched from PSLV-C25 on November 5, 2013 and scientists successfully put this spacecraft in the orbit of Mars on September 24, 2014 in the very first attempt. was installed.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) sources told PTI, “Now, there is no fuel left. The satellite’s battery is drained. Contact has been lost. However, there has been no official statement from ISRO. ISRO was earlier trying to move the vehicle to a new orbit to avoid an imminent eclipse. Officials said on the condition of anonymity, ‘But recently there was one eclipse after another, one of which lasted for seven and a half hours.’
At the same time, another official said, ‘Since the satellite battery was designed to have an eclipse duration of only one hour and 40 minutes, the battery was almost exhausted due to a long eclipse.’ ISRO officials said that The Mars Orbiter vehicle worked for about eight years, while it was built to a capacity of six months. “It did its job (excellently) and yielded important scientific results,” he said.
The media report quoted ISRO sources as saying that there is no fuel left now. The satellite’s battery is drained. Contact is now broken. However, there has been no official statement from ISRO regarding this. ISRO was earlier trying to move Mangalyaan to a new orbit to avoid an imminent eclipse.
