India’s second moon craft Chandrayaan-2 will undergo its fourth lunar orbit manoeuvring this evening.
It will be aimed at reducing the farthest distance of the lunar craft from the surface of the moon. The mission would be carried out by the scientists and engineers of the national space agency ISRO this evening. It will be the fourth round of orbit reduction manoeuvre and the last one would be held on Sunday evening.
On the 20th of this month, the day of the lunar ion of Chandrayaan-2, its farthest distance from the moon has been more than eighteen thousand kilometres. It has been gradually reduced to 1412 kilometres till the previous orbit reduction mission that was held last Wednesday. With today’s mission followed by the final one on coming Sunday, Chandrayaan-2 is expected to reach the moon’s polar synchronous orbit at an average height of a hundred kilometres.
ISRO scientists say the path would be the most suited to separate the lander called Vikram from the orbiter of Chandrayaan-2 on September 2, which is aimed at safely soft-landing near the lunar South Pole on the 7th of September.
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