The document summarizes India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launched in 2013. MOM's objectives were to demonstrate India's technological capability to design, plan, manage and operate an interplanetary mission at a low cost. It carried scientific instruments to study Mars' surface, morphology, atmosphere and assess if conditions were ever suitable for life. The mission successfully placed the Mars orbiter into orbit in 2014, making India the first Asian nation and fourth space agency globally to reach Mars. The entire mission cost approximately 450 crore INR ($63 million USD).