Chennai, Jan 13 (IANS) India's Mars Orbiter programme team has won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category from the US based National Space Society (NSS), the society said.
In a statement issued in Washington Monday, the NSS said its 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category has been won by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Programme team.
"This award will be presented to an ISRO representative during the National Space Society's 2015 International Space Development Conference, the 34th ISDC, to be held in Toronto, Canada," the statement said.
The conference will run form May 20-24.
According to the NSS, India's Mars Orbiter launched Nov 5, 2013 that went into Mars orbit Sep 24, 2014 achieved two significant mission firsts in terms of an Indian spacecraft that has gone into orbit around Mars on the very first try and that no other country has ever done this. Secondly, the spacecraft is in an elliptical orbit with a high apoapsis, and has a high resolution camera which is taking full-disk colour imagery of Mars.
Very few full disk images have ever been taken in the past, mostly on approach to the planet, as most imaging is done looking straight down in mapping mode.
These images will aid planetary scientists.
The Mars Orbiter programme team located in Bangalore is headed by Mylswamy Annadurai, the statement said.
The NSS is an independent non-profit educational membership organisation dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization.
Faith is surging on the holy Sangam coast. Even after the Maghi Purnima bathing festival, devotee
There is a steady decline in the cases of corona in the country. The Health Ministry said that in
Australia-Singapore Omicron: In Australia's New South Wales city, the first death from the new va
Future belongs to Digital India, says Jaitley
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said the futur
At the end of Murshidabad's Jafarabad village is the house where the rioters killed the father an
The Indian Air Force has received 56,960 applications under the Agneepath Recruitment Scheme. The
The Supreme Court has refused to order the CBI investigating Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput
Islamic extremism in Britain is becoming a major threat to the country. Along with this, the radi
There is good news amidst the decreasing corona infection in the country. Soon the country may ge
Follow the principle of 'all religions are one': Haryana governor
Gurgaon, March 24 (IANS) Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Tuesday asked people to follo
