India’s ISRO Mars orbiter programme team wins Space Pioneer Award

  India’s Mars Orbiter  launched on  5 Nov, 2013 that went into Mars Orbit on 24 Sep 2014 achieved no other country has ever done – an Indian Spacecraft orbited around Mars on maiden attempt and also transmitter full-disk colour imagery of Mars from its elliptical orbit using  a high apoapsis  a high resolution camera.…