The PSLV- C25 with India's Mars Orbiter on board lifting off majestically at 2.38 p.m on Tuesday November 05, 2013 from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharkota. Photo : K Pichumani
India’s first ever mission to Mars successfully completed its first stage Tuesday, as a rocket carrying the Mangalyaan Mars orbiter delivered the spacecraft into earth’s orbit, some 45 minutes after lift-off.
Mangalyaan will embark on a 780 million-kilometre journey to the Red Planet and is expected to enter the Martian orbit by September 2014.
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Published on November 5, 2013
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