Chandrayaan-2 Another Step Closer to Moon

New Delhi, August 28, 2019:

Indian Space Research Organisation on Wednesday has announced to have successfully performed the third lunar-bound orbit maneuver for Chandrayaan-2.

The duration of the maneuver was 1190 seconds. The orbit achieved is 179 km x 1412 km.

As per the official statement of the ISRO, All spacecraft parameters are normal. The next Lunar bound orbit maneuver is scheduled on August 30, 2019 between 6 pm – 7pm.

Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft with lander Vikram and rover Pragyan was launched on-board a heavy rocket (GSLV Mark III) on July 22 from ISRO's rocket port at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh off the Bay of Bengal coast, about 90km northeast of Chennai.

The Chandrayaan-2spacecraft had successfully entered the lunar orbit on August 20 by performing Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) maneuver. On August 21, ISRO had released two sets of pictures of moon captured by the spacecraft.

There will be two more orbit manoeuvres to make the spacecraft enter into its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon's surface.

It is to be mentioned that the lander would separate from the Orbiter (on September2) and enter into a 100 km X 30 km orbit around the Moon. It will then perform a series of complex braking maneuvers to soft land in the South Polar Region of the Moon on September 7, 2019.

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