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The successful insertion of the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission in September 2014 in its maiden attempt along with the preceding Chandrayaan-1 mission has provided a huge boost to the global perception of Indias technological prowess. This technological achievement is built upon the decades of ISRO’s experience in mission design, launch and operation of earth observation and communication spacecraft. The main driving factors for the Indian efforts in the direction of lunar and interplanetary missions were the optimal utilization of an existing launch system (PSLV) to achieve minimum energy orbit placement around the Moon and Mars with an innovative, highly elliptic orbit. An exposition of the mission planning, payload design, strategy and the technological features along with the differences with respect to the earth-or-biting missions is presented.
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Adimurthy, V., Ramanan, R.V., Tandon, S. R. and Ravikumar, C., "Launch Strategy for Indian Lunar Mission and Precision Injection to the Moon Using Genetic Algorithm", Journal of Earth System Sciences, Vol.114, 2005, pp.711-716.
Adimurthy, V., "Concept Design and Planning of Indias First Interplanetary Mission", Current Science, Vol.109, 2015, pp.1050-1054.
Arunan, S. and Satish, R., Mars Orbiter Mission Spacecraft and Its Challenges", Current Science, Vol.109, 2015, pp.1061-1069.
Arunan, S., "Mars Orbiter Mission", In "From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India’s Space Journey", Edited by Manoranjan Rao, P.V., Suresh, B.N. and Balagangadharan, V.P., Harper Collins Publishers, 2015, pp.609-630.