Today afternoon, test-firing of the propulsion engine on India’s spacecraft to Mars for four seconds was conducted smoothly. It has given good indication hopes of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) engineers about the engine’s performance on Spetember 24 when it will fire for 24 minutes to insert the Mars orbiter into the Red Planet’s orbit.
Firing of ISRO’s propulsion engine, Liquid Apogee Motor, on board ISRO’s Mars orbiter began at 2.30 p.m. The firing of motor helped to correct the trajectory of the orbiter , the altitude of the spacecraft was brought down by 200 km.The engine ignited today after a gap of 300 days during the spacecraft’s voyage to the moon.
