ISRO Chief S Somanath highlighted the mission's accomplishments, including capturing full-disc images of Mars and generating a comprehensive atlas of the planet with the onboard colour camera.

According to ISRO, the image was taken on July 1 when the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) was 7,300 kilometres from the Red Planet. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Mars Orbiter ...

“We are waiting for the final approval and work is in progress,” said Dr Subbaiah Arunan, project director, Mars Orbiter Mission of Isro (Indian Space Research Organization) here this ...

The MOM mission was first announced in November 2008, by former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair. The concept report and ...

Mission Mangalyaan is commended ... In reality, ISRO had to drastically cut down on the instruments it had planned to send to Mars because it lacked a rocket with the requisite capacity.

the Isro has also contributed to global space exploration, having launched 433 foreign satellites into space. Key missions include the Chandrayaan lunar explorations, the Mars Orbiter Mission ...

Sriharikota, Jan 29 In its historic 100th mission on Wednesday, ISRO successfully launched an ... the missions to Mars and Sun among others, the Secretary, Department of Space, said.