The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, is a spacecraft orbiting Mars that was launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in November 2013. It is India's first interplanetary mission and made ISRO the fourth space agency to reach Mars. The primary objective was to demonstrate India's technological capability to design, plan and manage an interplanetary mission. It also carried scientific instruments to study Mars' surface features, morphology, mineralogy and atmosphere. Mangalyaan successfully entered Mars' orbit in September 2014 and continues to transmit data, making it one of the least expensive Mars missions to date.