On Saturday morning, orbit raising operation of the Mars Orbiter spacecraft was carried out, raising its apogee to over 71,000 km. Apogee means the extreme point from Earth. Out of a total of five, this was the third orbit raising operation.

ISRO revealed that the operation started on Saturday at 2:10 in the morning. The spacecraft was lifted to 71,636 km from 40,186 km with in a burn time of 707 seconds.

The fourth and fifth operations would be performed on November 11 and 16 respectively to lift the apogee to 1, 00,000 km and 1, 92,000 km.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Wednesday prepared a series of six manoeuvres, thereby raising the apogee of its Mars orbiter, which the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25) carried. It was put into orbit of 247 km x 23,566 km which was bounded by Earth.

The trail took place from the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) station in Bangalore. The operation was not practiced by firing 440 Newton engine to the Mars orbiter.

In reality, the initial of these orbit-raising manoeuvres has occurred at 1.50 a. m. on Thursday and the final will occur on December 1. M. Annadurai, Programme Director, Indian Remote-Sensing Satellites (IRS) and Small Satellites Systems (SSS), ISRO, said on Wednesday, "We did the rehearsal of everything today in a controlled way except firing the engine and we have come back to the normal".