Chandrayaan-2 Closer to Moon With 4th Orbit Maneuver; September 7 Landing on Track

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Friday evening claimed to have successfully completed the 4th lunar-bound orbit change for the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft. In a statement posted on its official website, the agency said that the spacecraft began its maneuver at 6.18PM, using its on-lath propulsion system for 1,155 seconds.

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Fourth Lunar bound orbit maneuver for Chandrayaan-ii spacecraft was performed successfully today (August 30, 2019) at 1818 hrs IST.

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"Fourth Lunar bound orbit maneuver for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully today (August thirty, 2019) beginning at 1818 hrs IST as planned, using the onboard propulsion arrangement. The duration of the manoeuvre was 1155 seconds. The orbit accomplished is 124 km x 164 km", said ISRO. According to the postal service, all parameters are normal and the next lunar-bound orbit maneuver is scheduled for September 1 before landing in the lunar Due south Pole on September 7.

Chandrayaan 2, India's high-profile lunar mission, lifted off on July 22 aboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark Three (GSLV Mk 3) from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, a week later a technical glitch resulted in the postponement of the launch. The mission comes xi years after the Indian Infinite Enquiry Organization's (ISRO's) first successful lunar mission, the Chandrayaan 1, which orbited the moon more than 3,400 times and was operational for 312 days until August 29, 2009.

The spacecraft shared its start pictures of Earth from infinite on Baronial 4 before entering the Lunar Orbit on Baronial 20. Following the Chandrayaan-2'southward entry into the moon's orbit, ISRO released a fresh set of photographs of the surface of the moon and its craters taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera-2 on the moon-leap spacecraft. The pictures were taken on August 23 at an altitude of virtually 4,375 kms showing impact craters like Jackson, Mitra, Mach and Korolev.

With inputs from IANS