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December 1 2013: India's Mars probe Mangalyaan (MOM, Mars Orbiter Mission) started its course to Mars, escaping earth's gravitational field. Indian Space Reasearch Organisation's (ISRO) MOM mission statement gives progress as

" Trans Mars Injection (TMI) operations completed successfully. The liquid engine burn time was 1328.89 sec and the imparted incremental velocity was 647.96 m/sec."