Mission Over Mars

- Season 1

(2019)

ISA scientist Moushami faces her biggest setback when her team loses contact with ChandraViman1 while China's mission succeeds. As India sets its eyes on Mars, China beats it yet again even before Moushami can get approval for the mission.

The PMO office agrees to fund M.O.M on the condition that the mission is launched within 18 months. The ISA agrees to this condition. Team M.O.M, headed by Nandita, must now prove the skeptics wrong and make M.O.M a success.

Nandita is devastated when the Centre allocates only USD 75M for the entire mission. She tries some cost-cutting measures but is still over budget. Later, MSLV fails its first test launch. Can ISA afford a second test launch?

After MSLV fails the test for the second time, Moushami suggests that they use the tried and test ESLV instead. But it only has a success rate of 36 percent. Will Nandita and her team be able to pull off a third test launch?

In the review meeting, Moushumi fails to present the complete plan and offers to step down. Later, Gautam offers to seek the help of the American space agency, but Dr. Murlidharan is adamant about keeping M.O.M a 100 % Indian program.

Dr. Gokhale complains to the PMO office about procedural irregularities in the M.O.M mission. Dr. Murlidharan finds out from the team that fixing the irregularity would delay it by 8 months. The entire mission now risks being shelved.

The M.O.M team seeks PMO's approval for international co-operation, but it gets stuck due to bureaucracy. They find a way around it. Later, the mission is aborted due to bad weather just before the launch, and is declared dead for now.

M.O.M is far from being termed as a successful mission until it lands on Mars. Moushumi and Neetu realize that the supercomputers may be making a grave error in calculations. M.O.M finally leaves Earth's orbit but soon loses contact.