After a 298-day transit to Mars, it was put into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014. The MOM probe spent about a month in Earth orbit, where it made a series of seven apogee-raising orbital manœuvres before trans-Mars injection on 30 November 2013 ( UTC). The launch window was approximately 20 days long and started on 28 October 2013. The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre ( Sriharikota Range SHAR), Andhra Pradesh, using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25 at 09:08 ( UTC) on 5 November 2013. It made India the first Asian nation to reach the Martian orbit and the first nation in the world to do so on its maiden attempt. It was India's first interplanetary mission and it made ISRO the fourth space agency to achieve Mars orbit, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Mars Orbiter Mission ( MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (from Sanskrit Maṅgala, 'Mars', and yāna, 'craft, vehicle'), was a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014.
Insignia depicting journey from Earth to an elliptical Martian orbit using Mars symbol Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft around Mars (illustration)ĥ November 2013, 09:08 ( UTC09:08) UTC Ģ4 September 2014, 02:10 UTC (7:40 IST)
