I guess it's similar to launching and placing satellites in right orbit, or parking orbit? ISRO's launch vehicle PSLV-XL placed MOM in a parking orbit on Nov 5

I guess it's similar to launching and placing satellites in right orbit, or parking orbit? ISRO's launch vehicle PSLV-XL placed MOM in a parking orbit on Nov 5, 2013 and then ISRO did a series of orbit-raising maneuvers to bring MOM closer to Trans Mars Injection point. This post at The Planetary Society gives an idea about the orbits traversed by MOM: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/congratulations-due-to-india.html http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/congrat...