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India's first Mars satellite 'Mangalyaan' enters orbit



India has successfully put a satellite into orbit around Mars, becoming the fourth nation or geo-bloc to do so. The Mangalyaan robotic probe, one of the cheapest interplanetary missions ever, will soon begin work studying the Red Planet's atmosphere. Only the US, Russia and Europe have previously sent missions to Mars, and India has succeeded on its first attempt - an achievement that eluded even the Americans and the Soviets. BBC; Sept 24







To understand this news we will look at the chart for the April 15,2014 Lunar Eclipse at Delhi. The Sun is placed in the 9th house of long distance travel. The Ascendant [13le] is trine Mercury [13ar] and Uranus [13ar] also in the 9th house.

 Eclipses  can be triggered by transits and progressions. Here we have at least three such events (a) Mercury transiting over the eclipse Moon on September 22 (b) Jupiter transiting over the Ascendant and trine Uranus and Mercury in the 9th (c) the eclipse chart progressed by the solar quotidian method brings the Mars-Uranus-Jupiter-Pluto Grand Cross to the meridian axis.







Notice that in the progressed chart Mars [16li] and the MC [17li] are conjunct stars of Corvus, the Raven and Argo, the Celestial Ship. Diana Rosenberg links this area to “navigation, aviation and space”. With Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto in the Grand Cross we have scientific or technological breakthroughs like this one reported in the news. 

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