This document summarizes the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation. It describes the objectives to search for methane and study Mars. It details the successful launch and stages of orbiting Earth then reaching Mars' orbit. It discusses the national pride in India being the first nation to succeed on its first Mars mission attempt. It also notes congratulations from NASA and quotes from the Prime Minister on creating history by achieving the near impossible.

2. CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES
THE PROJECT COST
THE MISSION STAGES
SPACECRAFT PROPERTIES
 NATIONAL PRIDE
SUCCESS AT FIST ATTEMPT
NASA SENDS CONGRATULATIONS
THE JUBILIANT PRIME MINISTER-
NARENDRA MODI’S THOUGHT
PHOTO GALLERY AND FUNNNY STUFS.

3. THE MARS ORBITER MISSION
[MOM] MANGALYAAN WAS
LAUNCHED AT 2:38 PM ON NOV
5TH 2013 BY THE INDIAN SPACE
RESEARCH ORGANISATION
FROM SRIHARIKOTA, ANDHRA
PRADSESH.

4. FOCUSON LOOKING FOR PRESENCE OF METHANE, AN
INDICATOR OF LIFE THERE.
PLANNING, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONSOF AN
INTERPLANETARY MISSION.
DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATION, NAVIGATION,MISSION
PLANNING ANDMANAGEMAENT.
DEVELOP TECHNOLOGIES REGD. FOR DESIGN.

5. THE PROJECT COST LESS
THAN THE FILM “GRAVITY”
AT JUST RS.450 CRORE,THE
MISSION, COST IS LESS THAN
THE ESTIMATED $100 MILLION
(RS.609 CRORE) BUDJET OF THE
SCI-FI BLOCKBUSTER “GRAVITY”.
HENCE, THE PROJECT COST IS
RS.4.5 BILLION WHICH IS LESS
THAN THE COST OF THE FILM
“GRAVITY”

6. THE MISSION STAGES
SATELLITE CIRCLES THE
EARTH AFTER LAUNCH
5.11.2013
SATELLITE IS PUT ON A
TRAJECTORY TO MARS.
24.09.2014 SATELLITE BEGINS
ORBITING MARS.

7. SPACECRAFT PROPETIES
MANUFACTURE - ISAC
LAUNCH MASS - 1,350 kg
PAYLOAD MAS - 15kg
ROCKET- PSLV-XL C25
POWER – SOLAR CELLS

8. NATIONAL PRIDE
THE SUCCCESS OF THE
MISSION WHICH IS DESIGNED
TO SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE
OF LIFE ON THE RED PLANET,
IS A HUGE SOURCE OF
NATIONAL PRIDE FOR INDIA
AS IT COMPETES WITH ITS
ASIAN RIVALS FOR SUCCESS

9. SUCCESSS AT FIRST ATTEMPT
NO SINGLE NATION HAD PREVIOUSLY
SUCCEEDED AT ITS FIRST GO, ALTHOUGH
THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ,
WHICH REPRESENTS A CONSORTIUM OF
COUNTRIES , DID ALSO PULL IT OFF AT
ITS FIRST ATTEMPT. NOW
MANGALYAAN HAS REACHED MARS TO
STUDY THE PLANET ‘S SURFACE.

10. NASA SENDS
CONGRATULATIONS
 NASA CONGRATULATED
INDIA ON ITS “MARS
ARIVAL”, WEL -
COMINGMANGALYAAN,WHIC
H MEANS MARS VEHICAL IN
HINDI, IN A TWEET TO “THE
MISSIONS STUDING THE
RED PLANET”.

11. THE JUBILIANT PRIME MINISTER-
NARENDRA MODI’S THOUGHT
“HISTORY HAS BEEN
CREATED . WE HAVE DARED
TO REACH OUT INTO THE
UNKNOWN AND HAVE
ACHIEVED THE NEAR
IMPOSSIBLE”.

12. THE PHOTO
GALLERY

14. MARS

29. A MESSAGE FROM ALIENS

31. • THANK-YOU
• BY
• SANIKA
• OF
• CLASS VIII