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Emily Lakdawalla • Sep 23, 2014
How I will be watching Mars Orbiter Mission's arrival
Below are a few links to what will hopefully be working video feeds watching India's first-ever attempt to place a spacecraft into orbit around another planet. But, to be honest, I expect the best information to come through Twitter. Follow me on Twitter and I'll retweet every tiny whisper of news I come across.
- ISRO website video feed (Flash)
- ISRO website video feed (no Flash, for mobile devices)
- Two more alternate links for the ISRO feed: link 1 - link 2
- Doordarshan news live via Youtube
- Not sure if they'll have video, but Spaceflight Now always does a great job with live events and they'll be following this one!
- Live blog at CNN IBN, being updated by DP Satish
I and everyone else at The Planetary Society wish the best of luck to the Mars Orbiter Mission team, the Indian Space Research Organisation, and all Indians. I hope that the most exciting word we hear this evening is the space engineers' favorite understatement: "nominal." MAVEN made it look easy on Sunday, but it's never easy, and success should never be taken for granted.
Tweets from https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/lists/isro-mom
Here's the timeline again. Go Mars Orbiter Mission!!
Note: The timeline below looks different from the official one because I have added 12.5 minutes to all the official times to account for the time it takes radio signals to travel from Mars back to Earth.
| Event | Time (rel) | Time (IST) | Time (CEST) | Time (UTC) | Time (PDT) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change over to Medium Gain Antenna | -3h | Sep 24 04:30:02 | Sep 24 01:00:02 | Sep 23 23:00:02 | Sep 23 16:00:02 |
| Forward rotation starts | -21m | Sep 24 07:09:02 | Sep 24 03:39:02 | Sep 24 01:39:02 | Sep 23 18:39:02 |
| Eclipse starts | -5m 13s | 07:24:49 | 03:54:49 | 01:54:49 | 18:54:49 |
| Attitude control with thrusters | -3m | 07:27:02 | 03:57:02 | 01:57:02 | 18:57:02 |
| MOI start | 07:30:02 | 04:00:02 | 02:00:02 | 19:00:02 | |
| Mars occultation start | +4m 18s | 07:34:20 | 04:04:20 | 02:04:20 | 19:04:20 |
| Telemetry off | +5m | 07:35:02 | 04:05:02 | 02:05:02 | 19:05:02 |
| Eclipse ends | +19.48m | 07:49:31 | 04:19:31 | 02:19:31 | 19:19:31 |
| MOI end | +24m 14s | 07:54:16 | 04:24:16 | 02:24:16 | 19:24:16 |
| Reverse maneuver start | +25m 14s | 07:55:16 | 04:25:16 | 02:25:16 | 19:25:16 |
| Mars occultation ends | +27m 38s | 07:57:40 | 04:27:40 | 02:27:40 | 19:27:40 |
| Telemetry resumes | +30m 14s | 08:00:16 | 04:30:16 | 02:30:16 | 19:30:16 |
