Indian Space Research Organization chairman K Sivan Tuesday said Chandrayaan 2 has been successfully placed on the moon’s orbit. The Isro chief said it was a “major milestone” and the precise lunar orbit insertion maneuver was carried out at 9 am for about 30 minutes.
On the 30th day on its journey, scientists fired the on-board liquid engine of Chandrayaan 2 in a move called the Lunar Orbit Insertion to change its path and allowed it to enter the Moon’s orbit. The lander Vikram is expected to soft land on the moon on September 7, 2019.
Chandrayaan 2 lifted off on July 22, onboard Isro’s most powerful launcher, the 640-tonne rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III), from the country’s only launch site Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The lift-off was aborted an hour before its launch due to a technical glitch in its first attempt, however, a week later it was successfully launched again.
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