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On Monday, the fourth manoeuvre had fallen short of the targeted apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 100,000 km after the fuel flow to the engine was affected.
“The fourth supplementary orbit-raising manoeuvre of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, starting at 05:03:50 hrs (Indian standard time) on November 12, 2013, with a burn time of 303.8 seconds, has been successfully completed. The observed change in apogee is from 78,276 km to 118,642 km. The velocity added is 124.9 metres per second,” said Isro officials.
After the minor setback on Monday, Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan had said there was nothing to worry and there that the mission was indeed on track.
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On Monday, the apogee of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was raised from 71,623 km to 78,276 km by imparting an incremental velocity of 35 metres a second, against the targeted velocity of 130 metres a second to raise the apogee to 100,000 km.
After the operation missed the target, a supplementary orbit-raising operation was planned on Tuesday morning, which was successful.
Most-tracked mission
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), which was launched on November 5 by Isro, has become the most-tracked satellite in the world, according to N2YO, which provides web-based realtime satellite mapping tool to track multiple satellites.
Three days ago, MOM was in the fourth position among the top 50 most-tracked satellites in the world.
According to the N2YO website, MOM is the most-tracked satellite, followed by ISS (ZARYA) of the International Space Station. (The information is as of 6:00 pm on Tuesday).
The result is based on user activity for the past 12 hours.
MOM's mapping at 4.40 pm on Saturday showed the spacecraft was over Chad, a landlocked country in Central Africa.
