Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar transfer trajectory

After the fifth up-track exercise yesterday, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft came on track and brought it to the moon.

After being launched on October 22, the spacecraft was first injected into an elliptical 7 hour orbit around the earth between 255 and 22,860 km above the earth. After five engines start Chandrayaan-1 will rotate outward with an ellipse around the earth at 11: 4 CET (Tuesday 04: 56) to November 4 to reach the moon's transfer orbit

In the last 5th orbit operation, the spacecraft's 440 Newton liquid fuel propulsion engine was ignited in about 2.5 minutes. The moon's orbit is about 380,000 kilometers away from the earth.

The spacecraft is being monitored by the Spacecraft Control Center of the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) of the Indian Space Research Institute in Bangalore and is now functioning well. The Chandrayaan-1 Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) successfully tested on October 29 and provided the first picture of the Earth drawing.

Chandrayaan - 1 will approach the moon on 8th November 2008 when the spacecraft 's liquid fuel propulsion engine is launched again. This maneuver, called orbital insertion of the moon, slows down the spacecraft and allows the moon gravity to capture it in an elliptical moon orbit. Then a series of further maneuvers gradually reduce the height of Chandrayaan-1 around the moon until it reaches the last 100 km circular orbit.

The previous 4 orbital lift exercises were held on October 23, 25, 26, 29, 2008, respectively.

Chandrayaan - 1 is India 's first duty to transcend Earth' s orbit and is guided by ISRO. ESA coordinates and supports the provision of three European marine vessel instruments (C1XS, SARA, SIR-2), supports ISRO in the field of flight dynamics, supports archiving and processing of data. As a result of collaboration, ESA and ISRO will share the data of their respective products. Other international partners for this mission include Bulgaria and the United States

On September 1, 2009, the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan - 1 photographed the landing point of Apollo 15 and the moon rover. The Indian Space Research Organization launched an unmanned lunar explorer from the Satish Dawan Space Center on 8th September 2008 (IST). This picture was taken by a hyperspectral camera as part of the payload of the mission image. Apollo is planning to collect rocks of 380 kilograms (838 lbs) of moon at six manned duties. Analysts from all over the world claimed that these rocks are from the moon - there are no official reports in peer-reviewed scientific journals doubtful about this claim. The Apollo sample shows the absence of hydrated metamorphic products, showing evidence of impact events by not containing gas, and they are easily distinguished from vermiculite and earth rocks because they have unique geochemical features. In addition, most of them are more than 200 million years ago than the oldest Earth rock.

In early 2009, the first lunar orbiter in India, Chandrayaan - 1, finally contacted the handler. Then it disappears. Now, after more than seven years NASA has announced the discovery of two unmanned spacecraft flying around the moon. One of them is Indian lunar explorer, Chandrayaan-1. Researchers used a new ground radar to find the spaceship. Mr. Marina Brozovic, a NASA radar scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: "We were able to detect NASA's lunar reconnaissance orbit and the Moon of the Indian Space Research Institute using ground radar." Since we are working with the task navigator, It is straightforward, and it has accurate orbital data where it is located. "