Thursday, October 23, 2008

Chandrayaan - India joins Moon Club..

And the wait is over. Yesterday at 6.22 a.m. , PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) C11 thundered into the sky and placed the Chandrayaan into the temporary orbit around the Earth. And thus India became the 6th country in the world to launch a scientific mission to Moon. CONGRATS !!

In the next 15 days, it will move into the higher elliptical orbits, moving away and away from Earth and closer and closer to Moon. Then it will enter into lunar orbit and finally will drop the Moon Impact Probe (a bunch of scientific instruments and cameras) and then these will get activated…

And it’s a nice thing that everything is controlled just 15 km away from my home…

Good Good

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