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Mangalyaan (MOM)
India's Mars Orbiter Mission; reached Mars in first attempt โ a world record โ at a cost of โน450 crore
India ๐ฎ๐ณ 2014 Space Missions
Key Facts
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Launched 5 November 2013; inserted into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014 โ first Asian nation to reach Mars
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4th space agency to reach Mars (after NASA, ESA, Roscosmos); 1st to succeed in first attempt
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ISRO achieved this at โน450 crore ($73M) โ cheapest Mars mission in history; MOM was operational for 8 years
๐ Did you know? Mangalyaan cost โน450 crore ($73M) โ less than the production budget of the Hollywood film "Gravity" ($100M)
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Category
Space Missions
Region
๐ฎ๐ณ India
Year / Era
2014
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India's Mars Orbiter Mission