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Indian Spacecraft Enters Lunar Trajectory
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - Anuradha Menon
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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. 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.    (source: isro.org)



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