Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Chandrayaan-1 : Lunar Orbit

Quoting from the ISRO press release "The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am IST".

Earlier articles had mentioned 03-Nov as an important date, however no reason was given for why the date was changed by a day.

As per the article on ExpressIndia, Chandrayaan is expected to reach an apogee of 380,000 km on 08-Nov-2008 evening, when the lunar orbit insertion manoeuvres are also planned.

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