Chandrayaan lifts India’s hope, to meet moon in 12 days Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008




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India successfully launched it’s moon mission today, when Chandrayaan 1 blasts off from Sriharikota, off the Andhra Pradesh coast, early morning at 6.22 on Wednesday.

A 44-metre-tall and 316-tonne rocket called the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C11) carried the 1,380-kg lunar orbiter Chandrayaan 1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at exactly 0622 hrs IST.

From the GTO the satellite's onboard liquid apogee motor (LAM) will be fired to take it to the lunar orbit—387,000 km from earth—around November 8.

India now has joined the elite space club and became sixth nation who has their own moon mission.


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