India’s first interplanetary mission, “Mangalyaan,” may have come to an end when its Mars Orbiter ran out of fuel and its battery died. The Rs 450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched on November 5, 2013, using the PSLV-C25 rocket, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully sent into orbit around Mars for the first time on September 24, 2014.
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“Right now, there is no fuel left. The satellite battery has drained,” sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told PTI. “The link has been lost”.
However, there was no official announcement from ISRO, the space agency of India. Fueled up, ISRO had already been manoeuvring the MOM spacecraft into a new orbit to escape an approaching eclipse.
“But recently there were back-to-back eclipses including one that lasted…
With no fuel and drained batteries, India’s Mangalyaan mission ends after 8 historic years
