Mars Orbiter Mission: Timeline - The Economic Times
While the test Firing of Main Liquid Engine of
Mars Orbiter Spacecraft happened
on 22-09-2014, Mangalyaan entered Mars orbit
successfully today.
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Here's the timeline of Mars Orbiter Mission.
05-11-2013: PSLV-C25 , in its twenty fifth flight,
successfully launches Mars Orbiter Mission Spacecraft
from SDSC SHAR Sriharikota.
07-11-2013: The first orbit raising manoeuvre of Mars
Orbiter Spacecraft, starting at 01:17 hrs(IST) on Nov 07,
2013 successfully completed.
08-11-2013 The second orbit raising manoeuvre of
Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, starting at 02:18:51 hrs(IST),
with a burn time of 570.6 seconds successfully
completed. The observed change in Apogee is from
28814 km to 40186 km.
09-11-2013: The third orbit raising manoeuvre of Mars
Orbiter Spacecraft, starting at 02:10:43 hrs(IST) on Nov
09, 2013, with a burn time of 707 seconds successfully
completed. The observed change in Apogee is from
40186km to 71636km.
11-11-2013: In the fourth orbit-raising operation
conducted on Nov 11, 2013 the apogee (farthest point
to Earth) of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was raised from
71,623 km to 78,276 km by imparting an incremental
velocity of 35 metres/second (as against 130 metres/
second originally planned to raise apogee to about
100,000 [1 lakh] km). The spacecraft is in normal
health.
12-11-2013: Fourth supplementary orbit raising
manoeuvre of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, starting at
05:03:50 hrs(IST) on Nov 12, 2013, with a burn Time of
303.8 seconds successfully completed. The observed
change in Apogee is from 78276km to 118642km.
16-11-2013: The fifth orbit raising manoeuvre of Mars
Orbiter Spacecraft, starting at 01:27 hrs(IST) on Nov 16,
2013, with a burn Time of 243.5 seconds successfully
completed. The observed change in Apogee is from
118642km to 192874km.
01-12-2013: Medium Gain Antenna of the Mars Orbiter
Spacecraft is powered for long distance
communication, subsequent to successful Trans Mars
Injection (TMI) manoeuvre. Trans Mars Injection (TMI)
operations completed successfully. The liquid engine
burn time was 1328.89 sec and the imparted
incremental velocity was 647.96 m/sec.
02-12-2013: Spacecraft has travelled a distance of
5,36,000 km by 17:00 hrs (IST) of Dec 2, 2013. It has
crossed the distance to Moon's orbit around Earth
(mean distance 3,85,000 km) this morning.
04-12-2013 Spacecraft has traversed beyond the
Sphere of Influence (SOI) of Earth extending about
9,25,000 km at around 1:14 hrs (IST) on Dec 4, 2013.
11-12-2013: The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre
(TCM) of Spacecraft was carried out successfully at
06:30 hrs (IST) by firing the 22 Newton Thrusters for a
duration of 40.5 seconds. The spacecraft is travelling
at a distance of about 29 lakh (2.9 million) km away
from Earth.11-02-2014: 100 Days Of Mars Orbiter
Spacecraft.
09-04-2014: Mars Orbiter Spacecraft Crosses Half Way
Mark of its Journey.
12-06-2014: The second Trajectory Correction
Manoeuvre (TCM-2) of India's Mars Orbiter Spacecraft
was successfully performed on June 11, 2014 at 1630
hrs IST. TCM-2 was performed by firing the
spacecraft's 22 Newton thrusters for a duration of 16
seconds.
16-09-2014: Time-tagged commands to execute Mars
Orbit Insertion (MOI) uploaded.
17-09-2014: Uploading of commands for Fourth
Trajectory Correction Manoeuver and test-firing of Main
Liquid Engine (scheduled for Sep 22, 2014) is in progress.
22-09-2014: Test Firing of Main Liquid Engine of Mars
Orbiter Spacecraft is successful.
24-09-2014: Mangalyaan enters Mars orbit.