India's First Mission to Mars Set to Arrive at Red Planet

Monday, September 22, 2014 - 10:31 in Astronomy & Space

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) should finish its 24-minute orbit-insertion burn at 10:11 p.m. EDT Tuesday. Confirmation of the success (or failure) of this crucial maneuver should come to ground control minutes later, mission officials have said.

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