One of the major mile stones in the India's space history has been crossed. The ISRO Mom (Mars orbiter mission) has completed its 23 minute long liquid engine firing for entering into Mars Transfer Trajectory. This will impart an incremental velocity of 648 m/s while consuming 198 Kg of fuel. This activity started on today, 1st December, 2013 at 00:49 hrs IST and completed after 23 minutes.
The critical manoeuvre to place the MoM was successfully carried out. So the earth orbiting phase of the spacecraft has ended and the MoM is on its way towards the Red Planet (MARS) after a journey of about 10 months. The trans-Mars injection is a crucial event which is intended to place the MoM into an orbit around the sun marking the first step towards the 300 day journey to reach the orbit of MARS after crossing nearly 680 Million Kilometers.
ISRO planned to make four corrections in the course of the spacecraft's journey to Mars before it is expected to reach Mars in September, 2014. This is to correct any deviations along the path towards Mars.
The MARS Orbiter Mission is being continuously monitored by ISRO from their deep space network antennae at Bangalore. We all know that PSLV-C25 has successfully placed the 1350 Kg Mars Orbiter Mission into the orbit around earth on 5th November, 2013 at 14:38 hrs.
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