'This is Chandrayaan-3. I am feeling lunar gravity': Chandrayaan-3 successfully enters lunar orbit
Bengaluru: India's third moon mission, Chandrayaan-3 successfully entered the lunar orbit on Saturday, the ISRO said.
“MOX, ISTRAC, this is Chandrayaan-3. I am feeling lunar gravity," Chandrayaan-3 Mission sent the message to ISRO centres.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 5, 2023
“MOX, ISTRAC, this is Chandrayaan-3. I am feeling lunar gravity 🌖”
🙂
Chandrayaan-3 has been successfully inserted into the lunar orbit.
A retro-burning at the Perilune was commanded from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX), ISTRAC, Bengaluru.
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"Chandrayaan-3 has been successfully inserted into the lunar orbit. A retro-burning at the Perilune was commanded from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX), ISTRAC ( ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network), Bengaluru," the agency said in a tweet.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 4, 2023
The spacecraft has covered about two-thirds of the distance to the moon.
Lunar Orbit Injection (LOI) set for Aug 5, 2023, around 19:00 Hrs. IST. pic.twitter.com/MhIOE65w3V
Perilune is the spacecraft's closest point to the moon.
The subsequent procedure, which involves orbit reduction, is scheduled for Sunday at 11 PM, according to ISRO's announcement.
ISRO also transmitted a message from the lunar mission to its centers, stating, "MOX, ISTRAC, this is Chandrayaan-3. I am experiencing lunar gravity."
Over the course of three weeks and through five maneuvers following the launch on July 14, ISRO has been progressively moving the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into increasingly distant orbits from Earth.
Subsequently, on August 1, a crucial maneuver known as a "slingshot move" was executed, effectively propelling the spacecraft from Earth's orbit towards the Moon.
After this trans-lunar injection, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft departed from its orbit around Earth and commenced a trajectory that would guide it towards the proximity of the Moon.
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