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India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup

New submitter rahultyagi writes "After running into some problems in its fourth orbit-raising maneuver two days ago, Mangalyaan (India's Mars Orbiter Mission) seems to be back on track now. A supplementary burn lasting ~304 seconds was completed today, raising the apogee of MOM to 118,642 km — the intended apogee after the original maneuver. After the glitch two days ago, ISRO again seems to be on track to become the first entity to have a successful Mars mission on its first attempt. Though, of course, there are quite a few things that might still go wrong before this can be called a successful mission. Let's all hope that a year from now, we are all celebrating the entry of another nation into the small club capable of successful interplanetary missions."

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  1. Re:Casual slashdot racism in 3... by dbIII · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not worth pretending to be so utterly ignorant for such a pathetic joke. You fail as a clown.
    There's no way you could be such an utter failure that you actually believe such shit, especially after 9/11, is there?