Mangalyaan, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) was launched 05 November 2013 to explore the red planet for vital resource(water) and analyse the conditions for survival,from Sriharikota.
It took 500 scientist and 15 months of hard work to ensure the smooth liftoff of Mars Orbiter.
Today, 24 May 2014 is the 200th day since the launch of our MOM who has successfully completed 60% of its journey towards the Red Planet(Mars) along the designated helio-centric trajectory. It is expected to enter orbit around Mars on 24 September 2014.
ISRO has been continuously monitoring the Spacecraft using its Deep Space Network complemented by that of NASA-JPL.
Mars Orbiter Spacecraft and its five scientific instruments are in good health.Periodic tests are being done on the different levels of autonomy built into the Spacecraft for managing contingencies says ISRO.