Chennai: ISRO's third Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-3 on Monday commenced the Orbit circularisation phase after its orbit was reduced for the third time.
After Monday's precise maneuvre performed between 1130hrs & 1230hrs it has achieved a near-circular orbit of 150- km x 177 km.
The orbit circularisation phase is an intermediate process aiming to adjust the spacecraft's velocity and orbital path, thereby ensuring the spacecraft revolves around the Moon in a near-circular trajectory.
Next Operation is planned on Wednesday
The next Operation is planned on Wednesday when the propulsion module will separate from the lander ahead of the soft landing on the South pole region of the moon on August 23 evening.
In an update ISRO said "Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Orbit circularisation phase commences.
"Precise maneuvre performed today has achieved a near-circular orbit of 150 km x 177 km".
The next operation is planned for August 16, 2023, around 0830 hrs, it said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had on August 9 successfully performed the second crucial maneuvre to further reduce the Orbit of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft and took it even closer to the moon's surface.
After the second operation, the orbit of Chandrayaan-3's was reduced to 174 km x 1437 km and was taken further closer to the moon, it said.
After the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was injected into the Lunar Orbit on August 5, it had successfully underwent the first planned Orbit reduction manoeuver late on night of April 6.
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