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India on Tuesday embarked on its maiden Mars odyssey with its
polar rocket carrying Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) successfully
lifting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here in its first-ever
inter-planetary expedition in a bid to join a select band of nations.
The textbook lift-off of ISRO's workhorse launch vehicle PSLV C25
at 2.38 PM from the spaceport here, about 100 km from Chennai,
was witnessed among others by Minister of State in PMO, V
Narayanasamy, US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell, Indian
Space Research Organisation chairman K Radhakrishnan and a host
of other officials.
The Mars orbiter spacecraft was separated from Polar rocket and
successfully put into Earth's orbit. PSLV C25 placed Mars Orbiter
Mission precisely in elliptical orbit about 44 minutes after the lift off.
The XL version of PSLV C 25 had carried Chandrayaan 1, the
country's maiden moon mission, in 2008.
After going around Earth for 20-25 days in an elliptical orbit (perigee
of 250 km and apogee of 23,500 km), the Rs 450 crore
orbiterwould begin a nine-month long voyage to Mars around
12.42 AM on December 1.
The 44.4-metre tall trusted workhorse of ISRO was launched from
Sriharikota. With the success of this launch, the next major test is on
November 30, when the spacecraft begins its journey to Mars. And
then in September 2014, when it will inject the Mars orbiter into
the Mars orbit.
It is expected to reach the red planet's orbit by September 24, 2014
and go around in an elliptical orbit (periapsis of 366 km and apo-
apsis of 80,000 km).
The Mars mission of the ISRO is aimed at establishing the country's capability to reach the red
planet and focus on looking for the presence of methane, an indicator of life in Mars.
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