[meteorite-list] India's Mars Probe (MOM) Completes First Engine Burn

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:26:04 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201311062026.rA6KQ45O002749_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/pslv/c25/status.html

By Stephen Clark
Spaceflight Now

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013
India's Mars-bound spacecraft has completed the first of six major engine
firings to break free of Earth's gravitational influence, according to
a post on the mission's Facebook page.

The burn at 1947 GMT (2:47 p.m. EDT) raised the apogee, or high point,
of the probe's orbit around Earth. Controllers planned to fire the craft's
liquid-fueled engine for more than 3 minutes to raise its orbit by about
2,560 miles to an apogee of 17,861 miles, the Indian news website First
Post reported.

Five more orbit-raising maneuvers are planned, with the final burn Nov.
30 programmed to send the probe out of Earth orbit and on an interplanetary
cruise to Mars, ISRO officials said.
Received on Wed 06 Nov 2013 03:26:04 PM PST