Chennai: A day after suffering a glitch during the fourth orbit raising operation on its Mars Orbiter Mission, the ISRO on Tuesday successfully completed the supplementary manoeuvre, raising the spacecraft's apogee (farthest distance from Earth) to over 1,18,000 km.
“The fourth supplementary orbit raising manoeuvre of Mars Orbiter spacecraft started at 5.03 am (IST) with a Burn Time of 303.8 seconds and it has been successfully completed. The observed change in apogee is from 78,276 km to 1,18,642 km,” ISRO said.
The supplementary manoeuvre, which was completed by 5.10 am, added a velocity of 124.9 m/s to the spacecraft, it said.
After suffering a glitch during the fourth orbit raising operation on Monday, the ISRO planned for a supplementary manoeuvre at 5 am to achieve the targeted apogee of one lakh km.
The fifth of the five orbit raising operation to raise the spacecraft's apogee of over 1,92,000 km is scheduled for November 16.
