News India Live reporting: India successfully launches Mangalyaan to Mars, goes into Earth's orbit

Live reporting: India successfully launches Mangalyaan to Mars, goes into Earth's orbit

Sriharikota(AP): India today put its first confident foot forward in inter-planetary travel when it successfully launched the Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission) into Earth's orbit with old workhorse PSLV C-25 doing a perfect liftoff, putting the








The 76 metre tall Mobile Service Tower covering the 44.4 metre rocket was withdrawn to a distance of around 150 metres  and soon after the PSLV C-25 lifted off smoothly with a thunderous roar into the Indian sky.

Ever since its establishment in 1969, ISRO has only launched missions around Earth for various purposes and a single mission to the Moon.
 

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