India became the fourth country to successfully launch spacecraft on Mars. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft on November 5.

Since them, not only people in India, but across the globe keep on waiting for the latest update about the spacecraft. Lately, it has been announced that the spacecraft has successfully completed the second orbit raising manoeuvres.

The second round has taken place on Friday. "We have few more operations (manoeuvres) planned, one is on early hours on November 9th (which will raise the apogee (point furthest away from Earthy) further to around 71,000 kms)", said K Radhakrishnan, Chairman of ISRO.

Though all these efforts are valuable as they have been pushing the escape of the spacecraft from the Earth's gravity, the real task for scientists at ISRO stands on December, 1, 2013.

It is the day when they will do a trans-martin injection to start the spacecraft's journey towards Mars. It is expected to take around 300 days to reach on the red planet. September 24, 2014 is said to be the expected date on which the Orbiter will reach on Mars. The first stage of orbit raising maneuver was carried out on Thursday.