Friday, November 7, 2008

India's Lunar mission spacecraft Update

The Chandrayaan lunar spacecraft is expected to make lunar orbit on Saturday November 8th. The spacecraft's liquid rocket engines have already made several firings to increase its orbit trajectory away from the earth. It will make one final manoeuvre to be inserted into lunar orbit.

Several images taken of earth from the craft have already beamed back. The primary purpose of the mission is to map the surface of the moon.

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