MOM scaling new height.

Today itself a marvelously great milestone was achieved in the history of Indian space science program. The whole world today stared at us with jealous eyes. Even the big heavyweights with a lot of advancements in this field were flabbergasted to know that India has done it better than all others. Today is surely a day worth celebrating by heart and believe me it is day which is going to transform the future of Indian science from gloomy to bright in the coming future.

  A great soul has rightly quoted,

“Winners don’t do different things; they just do the things differently.”

And today I am proud to say it with my heart that according to the above mentioned definition my nation has trumped everyone else and is a winner. Today on 24^th September, history was created through the hands of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). When the Indian space mission popularly known as “Mangalyan” was inserted into the Mars Orbit successfully, even the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi was made to say that the Indian scientists have carried out a “near impossible” task.

Today India became the first country in the world to ever do this tremendously formidable work in its maiden attempt and has also become the fourth space agency in the world after Soviet Space Program, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) of United States and the European Space agency, to send the mission into the space and thereby becoming the first Asian country to do so successfully.

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) of India was made with tremendously ingenious efforts by worthy scientists at ISRO. The Mars orbiter was launched into space on 5 November, 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organization and today the orbiter successfully landed into the Mars orbit after a journey of more than 10 months in the space. The MOM mission was launched into the space from the first Launchpad at Satish Dhawan Space Center SHAR, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh using a polar satellite launch vehicle. For the first month, the orbit moved around the earth’s orbit and then was programmed to move towards the Mars.

But this was not a simple journey. The cost efficiency and success of the program have surely made the whole world envy of the scientific potential of India. Indian scientists at ISRO did all this work in just $74 million which is around one tenth of the amount spent of Maven spacecraft of NASA to Mars (Maven was built at a cost of $671 million). This is surely a marvelous feat by the Indian scientists and this has truly shown the world that Indians are not behind.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also felicitated the ISRO team and said that the team has surely created history. All this words surely boosted the morale of the Indian scientists and from now onwards India will surely turn a new leaf of life towards the space research program.

Once again I would like to thank all the scientists who are behind the project. You would be amazed to know that India is a nation that has developed the whole of its rocket technology itself. In 1974, after the Nuclear tests, many western nation imposed sanctions over India barring it from getting any type of technology from the outer world but the Indian scientists didn’t lose heart and made the impossible work possible by their dedication.

One more thing is that I would also like to express my gratitude and thankfulness towards the Soviet Union for the unparalleled assistance that they allocated to us. In the year 1991, India was in contract with the Soviet Union to receive cryogenic engines from the Soviet Union but in 1991 itself, Soviet Union vanished from the world’s map and now Russia was to complete the contract. But western nations especially United States of America pressurized the newly formed Russia to abrogate its contract with India so that USA could sell the technology at much higher price. On understanding the Washington game, Moscow arranged to do the work covertly. Nambi Narayan, head of Cryogenic engines at ISRO at that time, escaped with the blueprints of the engines and engine’s components and took that to India and afterwards with the help of Russian scientists, Indian scientists mastered the technology thereby playing a great role in the current scenario of Indian advancements in the space sector.

India has indeed reached a milestone today, but rather than becoming complacent we need to make sure that we continue to do our work continuously and relentlessly.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI