After a day of worry Indian Mars Mission is back on track and the space scientists and engineers at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have succeeded in raising orbiters apogee to more than one lakh kilometre on Tuesday early morning.
A space scientist who is part of this operation told The Pioneer that the worry was over and could able to raise the farthest point from earth of the spacecraft to more than a lakh kilometre. According to ISRO, the spacecraft is now ready to move out of Earth’s orbit and they might inject the space craft to Martian orbit by first week of December.
He said, “On Tuesday morning we have raised the apogee of Mars Orbiter to over a lakh kilometre. Our worry is over. The Orbiter is doing fine. In fact the orbiter is ready to leave the Earth’s orbit and we are planning Martian injection on December 1.” On Monday, a glitch in the flow of the liquid engine had slowed down the orbit-raising operation, as an apogee of only 71,623 km could be achieved as against the desired orbit of 1 lakh km. This was corrected with Tuesday’s exercise.