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Post by Seva Lamberdar Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:12 am

MUMBAI: At 1.14am on Wednesday, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) bade its final goodbye to Earth on its way to the Red Planet. The spacecraft has flown beyond the Earth's sphere of influence, which extends to about 9,25,000km.

The MOM, with its five scientific payloads, has entered the heliocentric phase of its nearly 300-day flight to Mars, which means it is now under the influence of the Sun and other planets. The gravity of the Sun dominates the solar system.

The MOM was hurled out of the Earth's orbit on December 1 in a manoeuvre described as the mother of all slingshots. The critical exercise had caused some anxious moments for the Isro team at the MOM mission control centre in Bangalore.

According to MOM's Facebook page, a thunderstorm struck the Hartebeesthoek ground station in South Africa, which was identified for monitoring this manoeuvre. This resulted in a data loss leading to a five-minute delay in the confirmation of the firing of the spacecraft's liquid apogee motor. MOM's on-board computer dexterously handled the operations and the engine performed flawlessly, taking India into interplanetary space.



http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mars-Orbiter-Mission-bids-final-goodbye-to-Earth/articleshow/26926760.cms
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