India Mars mission is flying higher after a glitch in the engine stalled it in space.

The India Mars mission blasted off from the Sriharikota launch pad on November 5, when the PSLV-C25 rocket carried the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft into space.

A short engine failure stalled an earlier attempt, but now the space agency says India's Mars spacecraft was "successfully" raised into a higher orbit around Earth early on Tuesday.

The Space Agency reported that the Indian Mars mission suffered a “glitch” but it was not a “setback.”

This is India's first Mars Probe. India has never before attempted interplanetary travel. The Mars Orbiter Mission will spend eleven months getting to Mars. It was launched through unusual "slingshot" method for interplanetary journeys.

India didn’t have a rocket big enough to take off directly out of the Earth's atmosphere. It could not stand the gravitational pull, so the India Mars mission will orbit the Earth, building up speed until the end of the month when it has built enough velocity to break free of the atmosphere.

The India Mars mission spacecraft finished its fourth repositioning and is now orbiting at 62,000 miles from Earth. On Monday, the thruster engines failed and the craft was put on auto-pilot.

In a statement to the press, the the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said "Fourth supplementary orbit raising maneuver of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft... has been successfully completed."

The ISRO said the engine failure was not a setback.

More than half of all missions to Mars, including China's in 2011 and Japan's in 2003, have failed. India’s Mars Mission is a bargain at $73 million.