Mangalyaan will enter Mars orbit in September 2014
Mangalyaan, the satellite India launched on Tuesday afternoon in its first mission to Mars, will enter the orbit of the Earth's red neighbour in September 2014.
Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) exhaled only after the satellite separated from the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, 2700 seconds or about 45 minutes after launch and entered the earth's orbit.
The launch rocket "has placed the Mars Orbiter spacecraft very precisely into an elliptical orbit around Earth," the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation K. Radhakrishnan announced from the control room.
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