India's Mars Mission ( Photo 3 of 5 )

The spacecraft will be manoeuvred through onboard propulsion system which will be triggered at designated intervals to propel MOM into desired orbit. Signals will be sent from the Indian Deep Space Network at Byalalu, 40 km from Bangalore, to fire onboard motors at precisely calculated points to accelerate the velocity of the spacecraft.

Planning and execution of crucial manoeuvres is as important and critical as the launch itself. While it took just 1.3 seconds for a signal to be sent to Chandrayaan, it will take 20 minutes to reach MOM.