Bangalore: Mangalyaan, India’s Mars orbiter craft, has run out of propellant and its battery has discharged past the safe limit making it difficult to be revived in Mars orbit. Speculation that Mangalyaan’s mission is over is growing as a result of this development. However, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is yet to make a statement regarding whether or not the probe may be resurrected.
There is currently no fuel remaining, a source told the news agency PTI. The battery in the satellite has run out and the link has been broken. Another official pointed out that the satellite battery is only able to power eclipses that last for approximately one hour and forty minutes. The Mangalyaan mission exceeded its operational expectations when it was launched on PSLV-C25 on November 5, 2013, and the spacecraft was successfully put into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, on the first try, despite having a smaller budget than the Hollywood film Gravity.
The Mars orbiter vehicle, which cost Rs 450 crore to build, operated for over eight years longer than it was supposed to. One of the goals of the Mangalyaan Mission was to design, build, and launch a Mars Orbiter spacecraft that could function independently enough during the voyage phase, Mars orbit insertion, and in-orbit phase around Mars. Additionally, it was equipped with five scientific payloads that were designed to gather information on the surface geology, atmospheric processes, surface temperature, morphology, and air escape process. The five instruments are the Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer (MENCA), Mars Color Camera (MCC), Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS), Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP), and Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM).