One of the India's most prestigious missions, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), has completed four years in space since its launch. The maiden interplanetary mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which was launched on November 5, 2013, by the 25th flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C25, was put into the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, in its first attempt.

MOM has completed about 1,100 days in orbit. India's $74-million MOM, called Mangalyaan, was roughly a tenth of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Mars ...