- MOM stands for Mars Orbitor Mission (Mangalyan)
- Launched by ISRO in 2013
- Launched via PSLV-XL C-25
- The MOM entered into the orbit of Mars on September 2014.
- It is India’s first interplanetary mission and ISRO has become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency.
- The mission is a “technology demonstrator” project to develop the technologies for designing, planning, management, and operations of an interplanetary mission.
- Why in news? It has completed 1000 days in Mars orbit, 5 times more than its expected lifetime.