MOM Leaves for Mars

India's Mars Orbiter Mission has successfully carried out its Trans-Mars Injection maneuver, and has now departed the Earth on a Mars-bound trajectory through interplanetary space.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/congratulations-due-to-india.html

https://www.facebook.com/isromom?directed_target_id=0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25163113


After a 300-day journey, MOM will arrive at Mars and activate its thrusters to perform a braking maneuver which will allow it to be captured by Mars' gravity.