Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 14:21
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation`s (ISRO) lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the Moon on 8 November. One day later, the spacecraft performed a manoeuvre that lowered the closest point of its orbit down to 200 km from the Moon.