India placed a probe in the orbit of Mars – Diario de Navarra

India on Wednesday managed to locate a probe into the orbit of Mars , a success for this China’s first mission on the Red Planet , announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi , which made the nation entering the space history. “India has achieved Mars. Congratulations to you all, the entire country. History is written today,” said the prime minister from the headquarters of the mission, piloted by the Indian Space Agency (ISRO) in Bangalore. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called by the Indians Mangalyaan took off from Earth on November 5, 2013
 
 It was conceived and developed in record time and on a budget. Thus, India achieved its goal of being the first country in Asia to get to Mars . So far, only the United States, Russia and Europe had succeeded in implementing the company. With a budget of $ 74 million, the Indian mission has just cost a fraction of what led to the Maven American NASA probe, put into Mars orbit successfully on Sunday.
 
 “We did it on our first try. ISRO developed the spacecraft in a record time of three years, all Indians are proud of you,” Modi told the members of the space agency. The Indian leader said that the amount devoted to this mission was less than the cost of the film ‘Gravity’, which cost about $ 100 million.
 
 Indian probe is equipped with sensors to measure the presence of methane gas in the Martian atmosphere, which credited the hypothesis of the existence of a primitive life form on this planet. The mill will spin in Mars orbit for six months, at a distance of 500 kilometers from the planet’s surface. However, NASA’s Curiosity robot, which arrived at Mars in 2012, did not detect the presence of methane gas which is often a sign of biological activity, according to a study published in September 2013
 
 This success strengthens the technological and industrial reputation of India, which produces among others the world’s cheapest car, and wins as a leader of innovation at low cost. The Indian space mission was designed according to the principle of “jugaad”, a typically Indian, who could approach the (French) “System D”, and that is to find the most ingenious and less expensive solution possible at a time. Even the rocket that propelled the Mars Orbiter, golden color and the size of a small car, was considered underpowered for this mission.