The launch of Mars Orbiter spacecraft is scheduled on 5 November at 2:36 pm IST onboard PSLV-C25 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, which means that it’s going to be a 56-hours-plus countdown, which commences at 6 am on Sunday.
Bangalore-headquartered ISRO also plans to undertake a launch rehearsal on Thursday (31 October ). ‘Almost all the steps to be carried out during the countdown are checked during the rehearsal’, an ISRO official said. ‘Everything is progressing well’. ‘We have only five minutes launch window’, chairman of ISRO, K Radhakrishnan, also secretary in the department of space and space commission chairman, told a news agency.
He said the mission readiness review is slated for 1 November, following which the launch authorisation board would give its green signal for the odyssey. ‘At that time we will look at the entire performance and the rehearsal and then authorise the countdown’, Radhakrishnan said.
MOM is a Rs 450 crore mission - Rs 110 crore for building PSLV-C25 that would launch the Rs 150 crore spacecraft, with the remaining amount spent on augmenting ground segment, including those required for deep space communication.
Once launched, the spacecraft would go around the earth for about 25 days before embarking on November 30 some 300-days voyage to Martian orbit where it’s planned to reach in September next year.
Bangalore-headquartered ISRO also plans to undertake a launch rehearsal on Thursday (31 October ). ‘Almost all the steps to be carried out during the countdown are checked during the rehearsal’, an ISRO official said. ‘Everything is progressing well’. ‘We have only five minutes launch window’, chairman of ISRO, K Radhakrishnan, also secretary in the department of space and space commission chairman, told a news agency.
He said the mission readiness review is slated for 1 November, following which the launch authorisation board would give its green signal for the odyssey. ‘At that time we will look at the entire performance and the rehearsal and then authorise the countdown’, Radhakrishnan said.
MOM is a Rs 450 crore mission - Rs 110 crore for building PSLV-C25 that would launch the Rs 150 crore spacecraft, with the remaining amount spent on augmenting ground segment, including those required for deep space communication.
Once launched, the spacecraft would go around the earth for about 25 days before embarking on November 30 some 300-days voyage to Martian orbit where it’s planned to reach in September next year.