Mars mission is back on track

November 12, 2013 09:33

Mangalayan, India's mission to Mars, is reportedly back on track on Tuesday morning after encountering a glitch on Monday.

"All is well and operations completed as planned. The final orbit of the spacecraft will be known in a few hours," NDTV quoted ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan as saying.

In an operation on Tuesday morning, ISRO scientists pushed the Mars-bound spacecraft to a higher velocity, reported NDTV.

After successfully completing three orbit raising manoeuvres, ISRO's Mars Orbiter mission had on Monday suffered a glitch as it failed to achieve the targeted apogee (farthest distance from Earth) of one lakh km during the fourth orbit raising operation.

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