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Why the Death of India's Groundbreaking Mars Orbiter Is a Big Deal
On Sept. 24, 2014, the Indian Space Research Organization made history. Once Mangalyaan blasted off from Earth almost a decade ago, the spacecraft's team expected to say goodbye to its muse in about six months. Getty Images So far, the agency said, more than 7,200 users have registered to download Mangalyaan's data from ISRO's online archive, 400 of whom are international, and about 27,000 downloads of varying sizes have been carried out already. Getty Images A rocky road to the rocky world It's poignant to think about Mangalyaan's everlasting imprint on space exploration because, around the time when the craft left Earth, reporters, scientists and space enthusiasts worldwide predicted a variety of directions in which that imprint could bend. In 2014, a New York Times sketch about Mangalyaan erupted in controversy because it teased the fact that India is soon to join the "elite space club." But now, at the end of it all, it'd be remiss to exclude the ultimate payoff that came from Mangalyaan's success. Source -cnet #ISRO #space #Mars #Mangalyaan #Spacecraft #
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