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ISRO wins Space Pioneer award for low-cost Mars Orbiter mission

FP Archives • June 9, 2015, 17:07:19 IST
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The country’s low-cost Mars mission which is in rendezvous with the red Planet for an extended period has been presented with the Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 by the US’ National Space Society.

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ISRO wins Space Pioneer award for low-cost Mars Orbiter mission

Bengaluru: The country’s low-cost Mars mission which is in rendezvous with the red Planet for an extended period has been presented with the Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 by the US’ National Space Society. Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 was presented to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the Science and Engineering category during the 34th Annual International Space Development Conference held at Toronto in Canada during 20-24 May, 2015, city-headquartered ISRO said on its website. [caption id=“attachment_2286874” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Mars Orbiter. ISRO Mars Orbiter. ISRO[/caption] It said the National Space Society (NSS) of USA presented the award in recognition of ISRO’s efforts in accomplishing Mars Mission in its very first attempt. Scripting space history, India on 24 September, 2014 successfully placed its low-cost Mars spacecraft in orbit around the red planet in its very first attempt, breaking into an elite club of three – US, Russia and Europe who have successfully undertaken missions to Mars or its orbit. The ISRO spacecraft was launched on its nine-month-long odyssey on a homegrown PSLV rocket from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on 5 November, 2013 and had escaped the earth’s gravitational field on 1 December. In 2009, NSS, an independent non-profit educational membership organisation, dedicated to the creation of a space faring civilisation, presented similar award to ISRO in recognition of the great accomplishment they have made in the success of the Lunar Probe, Chandrayaan-1. The Space Pioneer Award consists of a silvery pewter Moon globe cast by the Baker Art Foundry in Placerville, California, from a sculpture originally created by Don Davis, the well-known space and astronomical artist, ISRO said. The space research organisation also said Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (MOM) is under ‘solar conjunction’ at Mars, which will extend till 1 July. The spacecraft is under ‘solar conjunction’ at Mars, which means the spacecraft, which is orbiting Mars, is behind the sun as viewed from the Earth. As a result of this event which happens once in 2.2 years for Mars, communication signals from the spacecraft are severely disrupted by the Sun’s corona (outer atmosphere), it said. PTI

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