Live updates Mars mission

Live updates Mars mission

• ISRO’s next focus is Chandrayaan 2 and GSLV

• Mars orbiter mission would continue till 2015. Valuable data on the planet expected. Fingers crossed for its success

• Mars orbiter's first orbit raising manoeuvre will take place tomorrow. The orbit taken by the spacecraft would be progressively increased over the next 10 days

• After being injected into the Earth’s orbit, tests were done on the orbiter. All results satisfactory

• India's Mars orbiter will travel 300 days through space to reach the orbit of Mars

• Heat shield separated successfully, next 40 minutes will be crucial, ISRO says

• Second stage performance of mars orbiter launch vehicle normal

• India’s first inter-planetary satellite has taken off from Sriharikota

• Launch has been initiated

• Mission director for PSLV ready for orbiter launch

• A string of numbers and alphabets rattled off at Satish Dhawan Space Centre to mark completion of each check. All parameters fine so far

• Mobile Service Tower (MST) withdrawal to final parking (150m) completed. Countdown is normal, says ISRO

• The launch of ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission can be seen live today on Doordarshan from 2 pm onwards

• All vehicle systems were switched on for the final eight and half hour countdown starting at 6:08 am

• Second Stage (PS2) Propellant filling operations completed

• Mars orbiter will send back one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of data

• Will India find life on Mars? India's Chandrayaan had found conclusive evidence of water on the moon

• Journalists are being taken from Chennai to Sriharikota to cover India's first steps into deep space

• Final stages of readying Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). It will leave Sriharikota at 2.38 pm today to drop the Mars orbiter in Earth's parking orbit