{"id":47750,"date":"2013-11-04T21:41:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=47750"},"modified":"2013-11-04T21:41:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:41:54","slug":"india-plans-trip-to-mars-to-show-off-its-technological-ability-as-part-of-its-1billion-a-year-space-programme-but-country-will-still-receive-british-aid-until-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=47750","title":{"rendered":"India plans trip to Mars to show off its &#8216;technological ability&#8217; as part of its $1billion a year space programme (but country will still receive British aid until 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/India-spacecraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47748\" alt=\"\u0540\u0576\u0564\u056f\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576,\u057f\u056b\u0565\u0566\u0565\u0580\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057e,\u0544\u0561\u0580\u057d\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/India-spacecraft.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/India-spacecraft.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/India-spacecraft-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/India-spacecraft-469x300.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>India is making final preparations to send a spacecraft to Mars tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to test India&#8217;s space technology to see if it has the technological ability to explore the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, India will become only the fourth country or group to reach the red planet after Russia, U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>More than half the world&#8217;s attempts to reach Mars &#8211; 23 out of 40 missions &#8211; have failed, including missions by Japan in 1999 and China in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Mangalyaan, which means &#8216;Mars craft&#8217; is scheduled to blast off from the Indian space center on the southeastern island of Shriharikota &#8211; the start of a 300-day, 780 million-kilometer (485 million-mile) journey to orbit Mars and survey its geology and atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,350-kilogram orbiter is expected to reach its designated orbit September 24 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Mangalyaan is expected to have at least six months to investigate the planet&#8217;s landscape and atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; India is making final preparations to send a spacecraft to Mars tomorrow. The aim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[543,2228],"class_list":["post-47750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-india","tag-mars","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}