Chandrayaan-1 shifted to second orbit, condition healthy: ISRO
24 Oct 2008
Bangalore: Making steady progress towards it's destination 100 kilometres above the moon's surface, India's first lunar mission spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 which was launched on Wednesday from Sriharikota, aboard the PSLV-XL was on Thursday morning lifted to its second orbit.
Chandrayaan-1 is scheduled to lock-in to the moon's orbit at a distance of around 386,000 kilometres from Earth sometime on 8 November.
Prior to that, it will undertake more orbit changing manoeuvres including a crucial mid-course correction and a transfer into the lunar orbit trajectory.
The commands for the orbit raising manoeuvres were issued from the Spacecraft Control Centre at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network Centre at Peenya, Bangalore.
ISRO sources said that the first orbit-raising manoeuvre was performed at 0900 Indian standard time, on 23 October, when the spacecraft's 440 Newton Liquid Engine was fired for about 18 minutes.
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