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Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Mars gets 'MOM' : India creates history
New Delhi: Creating history in space, India on September 24, 2014, Wednesday successfully placed its Mangalyaan into the Martian orbit.
Thus, India became the first Asian country to reach Mars and the first in the world to enter Martian orbit in its maiden attempt.
With the success of MOM, India now joins the United States, European Space Agency and the former Soviet Union in the elite club of Martian explorers.
According to ISRO, the Mars spacecraft was successfully inserted into the Martian orbit at 515 km away from the red planet's surface and 215 million km away from the earth in radio distance.
The challenging task of the Mars orbit insertion began in the early hours of Wednesday at 4.17 a.m. when the spacecraft switched over to the medium gain antenna for emitting and receiving radio signals.
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