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That would require full autonomous capability to be developed to keep it functioning. The orbiter had to enter an elliptical orbit around Mars from behind the planet, cutting off all communication with Earth at the most crucial stage in the mission. The rocket had to be launched when the distance between Earth and Mars was shortest, in mid-2013: only 18 months to plan, build, and test everything onboard. The mission, especially considering the country’s limited resources, would have to be completed in record time.
When ISRO announced the Mars mission in 2012, its primary objective was to build a capability to enter Mars’ gravity, and once there, conduct scientific experiments. “I thought the people who worked on it were so fortunate.” Moumita left the offer of a PhD abroad and moved halfway across the country to join ISRO in its mission to the Moon. India’s 2008 mission to the Moon was a long time in the making, as historic as it was groundbreaking. But as a space organization in a newly independent country with extremely limited resources, the agency never participated in it. ISRO had been established in the late ’60s, in the thick on the moon race. It was a chance to make up for a national opportunity India had missed a half century earlier.
She was in the eastern city of Kolkata, India, in 2006, when she read in the newspaper that India was preparing to launch its first moon mission. That obsession led to her study of engineering. When Moumita Dutta was in the ninth grade, she studied light and found it fascinating.
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