Made for mission life of 6 months, India’s Mars probe completes 7 years in orbit

India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. “Indeed, a satisfying feeling,” K Radhakrishnan who as the then Chairman of Indian Space Research Oranisation (ISRO) led the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM, also called Mangalyaan)…