ISRO on Saturday supposed
the country’s October 28 Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) was on schedule, dismiss
suggestions that NASA may not be in a place to offer it deep space network
support following government blackout in the U.S.
“There is
no setback. We are going ahead with our MOM as planned,” Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) spokesperson Deviprasad Karnik told PTIin
Bangalore.
The
Bangalore-headquartered space activity is drawing reassure from the fact that NASA
has announced that it would go ahead with its own MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and
Volatile EvolutioN) mission, slate for launch as early as November 18.
This, in
other words, means that NASA would have to keep its DSN, an international
network of antenna that track interplanetary spacecraft missions, prepared.
