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US space agency NASA has beefed up the process of monitoring the orbit paths of its own MAVEN, India’s Mangalyaan, European Mars Express, its own old redundant spacecrafts which are orbiting Mars to avoid collision after a January 2015 incident. On Jan. 3, 2015, it was found that two weeks later, MAVEN and MRO (both NASA missions) could come within ...

Keeping their fingers crossed, ISRO scientists in Bangalore test-fired Mangalyaan’s liquid engine hoping the main engine on Monday successfully so the dormant main liquid engine wakes up from its 10-month hiatus and thrusts into the orbit of Mars as pre-destined. There will be eight thrusters, which will be fired to make the spacecraft enter the red planet’s atmosphere on September ...