Isro's Mars mission successful, India makes history.

The Times of India ^

[wyowolf]

CHENNAI/BANGALORE: India created history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.

Indian Space Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47am, but it was only 12 minutes later —because of a time delay in radio signals travelling the 680 million km -- that scientists at Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore, could erupt in joy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood a happy witness.

[wyowolf]

Not bad for a low cost first attempt.

[Islander7]

The pioneers take the arrows.

[Freeport]

Quite the accomplishment considering the number of probes sent, but that didn't make it.

Well done indeed!

[Portcall24]

Very true. First folks to what would be Virginia were told they could have it all the way to the other sea (Pacific). Of course most would be slaughtered if they ventured beyond the tree line away from the rivers.

[JRandomFreeper]

Missions to Mars run about 50% failure rate.

Congrats! India.

/johnny

[Chainmail]

An amazing accomplishment - Go India!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

India is running out of places to poop. Mars is wide open.

[PGalt]

Congrats India.

[ltc8k6]

Well, it is 2014.

The US was successful with Mariner 9 in 1971, our second attempt at a Mars orbiter.

Our first attempt was Mariner 8, and it was a launch failure.

Per Wiki.

[Izzy Dunne]

the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.

The ESA also did it on its first attempt. But ESA is not a country.

Congrats ISRO!

[Izzy Dunne]

India is running out of places to poop.

I would suggest Iran.

[Republic_Venom]

Mission was cheaper than making of the movie ‘Gravity’. That’s the real story.

[C210N]

No biggy. But, can they land a craft on the the Sun?

[kitchen]

Was the Martian defense system down?

[yldstrk]

The people of India are to be congratulated

[Cincinatus]

becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.

Mariner 9 achieved orbit around Mars in 1971; that mission was our first attempt to send an orbiter there.

[njslim]

Probably scouting locations for 7-11 convience stores.......

[wyowolf]

I thought M8 was the first one? blew up on launch.

[Cincinatus]

In the olden days, when we had a real space program, planetary missions were launched in pairs (mariner 6/7, Mariner 8/9, Viking 1/2 and Voyager 1/2), both for redundancy and to double the possible return. Mariner 8 was lost during launch, but it was only one-half of the Mariner 8/9 mission of a Mars orbiter.

In any event, I shall save my congratulations to ISRO until I see what data (if any) they get from their spacecraft.

[wyowolf]

Thank you, I did not know that.
so your saying they didnt succeed?