Archive - Nov 2008
Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Transfer Trajectory Orbit
Submitted by pjm on Thu, 06/11/2008 - 07:12.From the ISRO website at http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov04_2008.htm
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 (three lakh eighty thousand km).

