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Article: CHANDRAYAAN-1 TO GET WITHIN 500 KM OF MOON TUESDAY
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- November 3, 2008
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Prashant K. Nanda
Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication.
Bangalore, Nov. 03 -- (IANS) India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 will cruise closer to the moon early Tuesday when it makes the transition from the earth's elliptical orbit into deeper space, a top space agency official said Monday."The liquid apogee motor (LAM) on board will be fired around 5.00 a.m. Tuesday for about five minutes to make the transition and position the spacecraft at about 500 km from the moon's surface and over 384,000 km away from the earth," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director S. Satish told IANS here.The complex manoeuvres will be carried out from ...