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Countdown begins for India's Mars Orbiter Mission

Chennai: The 56 and-a-half hour countdown for the launch of India's first space mission to Mars, slated for November 5, commenced today at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.“The 56 hours and 30 minutes

PTI PTI Updated on: November 03, 2013 20:05 IST


European Space Agency (ESA) of European consortium, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US and Roscosmos of Russia are the three agencies which have successfully undertaken missions to the red planet so far.



Though there have been 51 missions to the Mars, only 21 of them have been successful.

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