Indyplus video: India's countdown to Mars

Friday 01 November 2013 19:08 EDT

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If everything goes according to the plans, at 3.28pm next Tuesday, India’s first mission to Mars will fire off from Sriharitkota, a small island off India’s eastern coast.

The £62m, unmanned “Mangalyaan” orbiter mission will then circle Earth, gradually picking up speed until booster rockets are fired, setting the craft on a 300-day journey to Mars. It is due to arrive in the orbit of the Red planet on 21 September next year.

Watch a sneak preview of the satellite:

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