NEW DELHI: India’s Mars spacecraft was “successfully” raised into a higher orbit around Earth early on Tuesday, after a brief engine failure during an earlier attempt, the space agency said.
The Mars Orbiter Mission, which blasted off on November 5 for an 11-month trip to the Red Planet, is being launched on its way via an unusual “slingshot” method for interplanetary journeys.
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