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Detailed explanation-1: -Cost. The total cost of the mission was approximately ₹450 Crore (US$73 million), making it the least-expensive Mars mission to date. The low cost of the mission was ascribed by ISRO chairman K.

Detailed explanation-2: -To keep costs down, the engineers for the Indian Space Research Organization building the craft modeled it exclusively with computer software instead of constructing physical prototypes. Then they crossed their fingers that the final, single model they built would work.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India’s first interplanetary mission to planet Mars was launchedonboard PSLV-C25 on November 05, 2013. ISRO has become the fourth space agency to successfully send a spacecraft to Mars orbit. Though the designed mission life is 6 months, MOM completed 7 years in its orbit on Sept 24, 2021.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mangalyaan is the cheapest inter-planetary mission ever to be undertaken anywhere in the world. It has cost ₹ 450 crores or just about ₹ 4 per person in India.