Chandrayaan-1 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory
Tue Nov 4, 2008 at 09:42 UTC
The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out last night (November 3, 2008) at 23:26 UTC. During this manoeuvre, the spacecraft's 440 Newton liquid engine was fired for about two and a half minutes.
With this, Chandrayaan-1 entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory with an apogee (farthest point to Earth) of about 380,000 km.
The health of the spacecraft is being continuously monitored from the Spacecraft Control Centre at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bangalore with support from Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) antennas at Byalalu.
Since its launch on October 22 by PSLV-C11, all systems onboard Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft are performing normally. Chandrayaan-1 will approach the Moon on November 8, 2008 and the spacecraft's liquid engine will be fired again to insert the spacecraft into lunar orbit.
Credit: ISRO.
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