“Second one will be in April 2014, third one will be in August 2014 and the last one- the fourth one will be on September 14 that is 10 days before we insert into Martian orbit. Couple of day's uncertainty will be there....,” he added.
Mars orbiter spacecraft was launched on board PSLV rocket on November 5 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Another major operation during the mars orbit mission will be mars orbit insertion “which is going to happen on September 24, 2014 early morning 07:14 hours as per our present estimate,” Rao said.
He said, “There again we will burn the liquid engine.... this will be for duration of 58.8 minutes, breaking velocity we apply at 1,109 metres and another 247 kgs of fuel will be
consumed.”
“With that it will get inserted into Mars...,” he added.
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