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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan (Mars-craft, from Sanskrit: मंगल mangala, Mars and यान yāna, craft, vehicle), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is India's first interplanetary mission and it made it the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit and the first nation in the world to do so on its maiden attempt.