Chandrayaan-2 Successfully Enters Second Lunar Orbit: ISRO

Chandrayaan-2 was put into its first Lunar orbit on Tuesday.

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By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 21 August 2019 15:21 IST
Highlights
  • Second Lunar orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successful
  • The orbit manoeuvre began at 12:50pm and took 1,228 seconds to complete
  • All spacecraft parameters are normal

The second Lunar orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully completed on Wednesday, said India Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

According to ISRO, the orbit manoeuvre began at 12:50pm and took 1,228 seconds to complete. The orbit achieved is 118 km X 4,412 km.

All spacecraft parameters are normal.

The next Lunar bound orbit manoeuvre is scheduled on August 28, 2019 between 5:30am - 6:30am

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On Tuesday, the Chandrayaan-2 was put into its first Lunar orbit.

On July 22, the Chandrayaan-2 was injected into an elliptical orbit of 170X45,475 km by India's heavy lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV Mk III) in a text book style.

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The spacecraft comprises three segments - the Orbiter (weighing 2,379 kg, eight payloads), the lander 'Vikram' (1,471 kg, four payloads) and rover 'Pragyan' (27 kg, two payloads).

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The Indian space agency said the major activities include Earth-bound manoeuvres, the trans-lunar insertion, lunar-bound manoeuvres, Vikram's separation from Chandrayaan-2 and touch down on the Moon's South Pole.

 

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