Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday said that the Chandrayaan-3 has successfully performed the fifth Orbit-raising manoeuvre, also known as earth-bound perigee firing. «The spacecraft is expected to attain an orbit of 127609 km x 236 km.
The achieved orbit will be confirmed after the observations,» ISRO said in a tweet. It expects the next firing, that is the TransLunar Injection (TLI), to take place on August 1, 2023, between 12 midnight and 1 am Indian Standard Time.
Earlier, on July 25, the fourth firing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft took place from the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru. The Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon was launched on July 14.
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