Chandrayaan 1, India's First Lunar Probe Options

[Vultur]

Is it scheduled to raise orbit tomorrow (today, on the other side of the Atlantic)?

[Bhas_From_India]

Update

"The liquid apogee motor (LAM) on board will be fired around 5.00 am on Tuesday (IST) 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 said.

"Additional velocity will be given to the spacecraft to enter the lunar orbit Saturday (November 8) for a rendezvous with the moon. With calibrated firing of its LAMs, it will be inserted into its designated orbit, which will be about 100 km from the lunar surface," Satish said.

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

Will you please provide us with links when you quote?

[mps]

Google'd it, found it.
There are actual several sources, one of them:
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-39680.html

[Bhas_From_India]

Chandrayaan-1 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory

The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am IST.
During this manoeuvre, the spacecraft’s 440 Newton liquid engine was fired for about two and a half minutes. With this, Chandrayaan-1 entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory with an apogee (farthest point to Earth) of about 380,000 km (three lakh eighty thousand km).

Link: http://isro.org/pressrelease/Nov04_2008.htm

[Bhas_From_India]

Informative interview about Indian Deep Space Network that is being used to track Chandrayaan-I

Link : http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20...21252302000.htm

[Floyd]

Bhas
The creation of the deep space network and the launch of Chandrayaan-1 is all extremely impressive. Good luck on moon orbital insertion. I'll then be looking forward to exciting science data.
-Floyd

[Bhas_From_India]

Full inline quote removed - Admin

Thanks Floyd.
Good to see JAXA (Selene) and ESA (Rosetta) letting IDSN to track their satellite/probe.

[shankar]

The link below has some details of the terrain mapping camera
onboard chandrayaan-1.

http://www.hindu.com/seta/2008/11/06/stori...10650031400.htm

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

http://www.business-standard.com/india/sto...mp;autono=49185

In one of the most crucial manoeuvres since the launch of India's maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, ISRO scientists are slated to inject the spacecraft into the lunar orbit today.


"The lunar orbit insertion (LOI) will start around 5 p.M. and last around 800 seconds," ISRO spokesperson S Satish told PTI here.

Once the operation is completed, it will be in a 7,500 km X 500 km elliptical orbit around the moon.

"It (Chandrayaan-1) will enter the moon's orbit. It will be captured by lunar gravity," Satish said.

Chandrayaan-1 was launched from the spaceport of Sriharikota on October 22

[jabe]

looks like a Success

Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned spacecraft mission to moon, entered lunar orbit today (November 8, 2008).

jb

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

I noticed this one:

During this period, the Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC), one of the eleven payloads (scientific instruments) of the spacecraft, was successfully operated twice to take the pictures, first of the Earth, and then moon.

And I'm asking: where are the pictures of the Moon?

[jabe]

And I'm asking: where are the pictures of the Moon?

from universe today blog

Following the fifth and final orbit raising maneuver which put Chandrayaan-1 closer to the moon, the spacecraft snapped the first picture of its final destination. ...... While the images are still being processed and are not available yet, mission managers says the images bode well for spacecraft's mission to map the entire moon's surface with its Terrain Mapping Camera.

not sure where he got his info though.
jb

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

I do hope ISRO won't follow the course of China with almost no information.

[Phil Stooke]

Now in orbit... and this is the story about the pictures:

http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/06/stories/2008110651691300.htm

India is very different from China in that (among countless other differences) it has a vibrant free press. Much more news can be expected, but maybe not the 'picture of the day' we would like.

Phil