What an achievement
• The second orbit-raising manoeuvre was performed at 5.48 am on Saturday. This has taken Chandrayaan-I into an elliptical orbit whose furthest point from earth (apogee) is 74,715 km and nearest point (perigee) is 336 km
• In this orbit, Chandrayaan-I will take 251/2 half hours to go round the earth. This is the first time that an Indian spacecraft has this far in space.
• The maximum that any Indian vehicle had gone before this was the 36,000-km geostationary orbit in which a number of Indian satellites are lined up
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