{"id":147646,"date":"2022-10-06T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/indias-mars-orbiter-mission-has-ended-after-8-years-it-was-designed-to-only-have-a-6-month-lifespan"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:25:36","slug":"indias-mars-orbiter-mission-has-ended-after-8-years-it-was-designed-to-only-have-a-6-month-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/indias-mars-orbiter-mission-has-ended-after-8-years-it-was-designed-to-only-have-a-6-month-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Mars Orbiter Mission has ended after 8 years. It was designed to only have a 6-month lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-mars-orbiter-mission-has-ended-after-8-years-it-was-designed-to-only-have-a-6-month-lifespan3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Mars Orbiter Mission, known as MOM, has ended after eight years \u2013 even though it was designed for a six-month lifespan, the Indian Space Research Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/MOM_NationalMeet_2022SEP.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced this week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mars orbiter launched on Nov. 5, 2013 and made it into orbit about 10 months later. It was an enormous feat to have reached Mars\u2019 orbit successfully in the first attempt, Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, a member of India\u2019s space commission, said during an address Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, more than half of the world\u2019s attempts at such a mission \u2013 23 out of 41 \u2013 had failed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/india-puts-satellite-into-mars-orbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Associated Press.<\/a> The U.S. was successful with a Mars flyby in 1964, when a spacecraft called Mariner 4 returned with 21 images of the surface of the planet. Other successful missions include the Soviet Union\u2019s in 1971 and the European Space Agency\u2019s in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Mars Orbiter Mission, known as MOM, has ended after eight years \u2013 even though it was designed for a six-month lifespan, the Indian Space Research Organization announced this week. The Mars orbiter launched on Nov. 5, 2013 and made it into orbit about 10 months later. It was an enormous feat to have reached [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}