The Mars Orbiter Mission is scheduled to complete its journey on September 24.
The orbiter will take 300 days to complete its tryst with Mars, Bangalore headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation said.
It now takes 20 minutes for radio signals to reach MOM and return, ISRO said in a post on its Mars Orbiter Mission Facebook page.
Earlier this month, ISRO had announced that the planned Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) for the ambitious mission in August was postponed as the spacecraft is on track.
MOM is the first inter-planetary mission undertaken by India. The project is worth less than Rs 450 crore project.
The MOM was launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on board Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on November five last year. It would reach the atmosphere of the red planet's atmosphere by September 24.
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