{"id":3118,"date":"2019-07-22T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:25:44","slug":"chandrayaan-2-isro-spacecraft-successfully-achieves-geostationary-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/chandrayaan-2-isro-spacecraft-successfully-achieves-geostationary-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-2: ISRO spacecraft successfully achieves Geostationary Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandrayaan-2\">Chandrayaan-2<\/a> completed the first stage of the Moon mission by successfully entering Geostationary Orbit at 181.65 km above sea level. This is an amazing achievement by ISRO and is a proud moment for India. After the last min abort of the previous launch attempt all eyes were on ISRO to make a successful launch in a extremely tight launch window of only a few minutes. ISRO Chief K Sivan, made the following statement after the launch<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m extremely happy to announce that the GSLVMkIII-M1 successfully injected Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft into Earth Orbit. It is the beginning of a historic journey of India towards moon and to land at a place near South Pole to carry out scientific experiments: <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that the rocket has achieved Geo-Stationary orbit it will start orbit-raising operations followed by trans-lunar injection using its own power. Post that the rocket will head out to the Moon and below are the different phases of Chandrayaan 2\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>July 22 to August 13:<\/b> Chandrayaan 2 will orbit around the Earth in an elliptical path<\/li>\n<li><b>August 13 to August 19:<\/b> Course change to to establish into moon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orbit<\/li>\n<li><b>August 19: <\/b> Enter Moon&#8217;s orbit<\/li>\n<li><b>August 19 to Aug 31: <\/b> Chandrayaan 2 will revolve in the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orbit<\/li>\n<li><b>September 1:<\/b> The Lander Vikram will detach from the Orbiter heading down to land near the South Pole of the Moon<\/li>\n<li><b>~September 7:<\/b>Lander Vikram will make a soft landing in the south polar region of the moon<\/li>\n<li><b>~Landing + 4hours:<\/b> Rover Pragyaan will roll out of the Lander Vikram and perform different tests on the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s polar surface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>@ISRO, a proud nation salutes you and here&#8217;s to the journey to new horizons.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Coverage: <a href='https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-49032603'>Chandrayaan-2: India launches second Moon mission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO&#8217;s Chandrayaan-2 completed the first stage of the Moon mission by successfully entering Geostationary Orbit at 181.65 km above sea level. This is an amazing achievement by ISRO and is a proud moment for India. After the last min abort of the previous launch attempt all eyes were on ISRO to make a successful launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}