Chennai:The second orbit out of six raising manouevres for the Mars orbiter was completed successfully early Friday, the Indian space agency said.
According to Indian space research Organisation (ISRO), the second orbit raising manouevre that started two.18 a.m. Friday has been successfully completed.
The on-board motor of Mars orbiter was discharged for 570.6 seconds taking up the Mars orbiter to forty,186 kilometre apogee (farthest purpose to the Earth) from the earlier levels of twenty eight,814 km.
ISRO launched the Mars orbiter in earth orbit tuesday. The spacecraft was placed at an elliptical earth orbit with a perigee of 248.4 kilometre and an apogee of twenty three,550 km, inclined at an angle of nineteen.27 degrees to the equator.
The 1,340-kg Mars orbiter, developed by ISRO at an outlay of around Rs.150 crore, carries 852 kilogram of fuel on-board. Around 360 kilogram fuel was likely to be expended on the six orbit raising activities.
During the final orbit raising activity, the orbiter are placed on Mars Transfer flight Dec one.
According to ISRO, the Mars orbiter can trip the neighbourhood of the red planet in September 2014 when three hundred days of region voyage.
When the orbiter is close to Mars, the spacecraft’s motors are discharged once more however in reverse direction to slow it down and let it captured by Martian gravity into an orbit around it, ISRO said.
According to the Indian area agency, all the systems of the orbiter are functioning normally.
India’s first inter-planetary Mars orbiter Mission prices around Rs.450 crore.
