WHAT WE DO

JOINRENEWJOIN

  

The Planetary Society Blog

By Emily Lakdawalla




Chandrayaan-1 update: Still in Earth orbit, closer to the Moon

Oct. 29, 2008 | 12:28 PDT | 19:28 UTC
We need your help.
Please donate to support our blog, website, and podcast.
RSS 2.0 News Feed

According to an update posted to the Chandrayaan-1 website this morning, the Indian lunar orbiter has now performed four orbit-raising maneuvers, and is now (after a maneuver at 02:08 UTC today) on an orbit with an apogee of 267,000 kilometers. This is a six-day orbit. If I am not mistaken, they should only need one more maneuver to get them into the 11-day lunar transfer orbit. The soonest that could happen is six days from this morning, or around November 4.

Post this page to: del.icio.us Yahoo! MyWeb Digg reddit Furl Blinklist Spurl

Comments

Name
E-mail (Will not appear online)
Title
Comment
To prevent automated Bots form spamming, please enter the text you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.



This comment form is powered by GentleSource Comment Script. It can be included in PHP or HTML files and allows visitors to leave comments on the website.


Emily's on Twitter! »

Sign up for email updates!
Email address:
(optional) Your name: