India’s Mars orbiter spacecraft has to travel only 88 million km as part of its total journey of 680 million km for its rendezvous with the red planet scheduled for 24 September.
On its 300-day voyage in deep space, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has to travel only 88 million km more in its heliocentric trajectory to reach Mars, Bangalore headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
It now takes 20 minutes for radio signals to reach MOM and return, ISRO said in a post on its Mars Orbiter Mission Facebook page. Earlier this month, the space research organisation had said that scientists will not carry out the planned Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) for the ambitious mission in August as the spacecraft is on track.